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...announced Saturday that numerous books from the recently donated dramatic library of Daniel Paine Griswold '87 will be shelved in the main room of the Theatre Collection of Widener Library. Mr. A. C. Potter '95, Assistant Librarian, has selected for Library the choicest volumes from this collection, which was bequeathed by the widow of the man for whom it now stands as a memorial...
...Widener Memorial Rooms, opening from the landing of the main stairway, contain the library collected by Harry Elkins Widener of the class of 1907. The collection is composed of books of the highest rarity and interest, in the choicest condition, and enriched by inscriptions, manuscripts, and other portraits...
...Widener Memorial Rooms, opening from the landing of the main staircase, contain the library collected by Harry Elkins Widener of the class of 1907. The collection is composed of books of the highest rarity and interest, in the choicest condition, and enriched by inscriptions, manuscripts, and portraits...
Baedeker, in his guide-book, calls Mrs. Gardner's "the choicest collection of art in America". It includes Raphael's Portrait of Fedra Inghirami, the "Rape of Europe," by Titian, called by Rubens "the first picture in the world," and best known of all, the "Portrait of Thomas Howard," by Rubens. Botticelli, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Giorgione and Cellini, are among the Italians represented, and there is a splendid group of canvasses by Rembrandt. This opportunity is one of which students who wish to broaden their interests should not fail to take advantage. One seldom is able to see in America...
...these parties from whom we can expect a slight return. But it is quite impossible to sell the same waistcoat to four different people, as we are led to believe by their persistency. The ground in front of Memorial seems to have been mutually agreed upon as the choicest field of competition, and so the innocent student must run the gauntlet, to enter or leave the Hall, wondering whether the clothes on his back really do belong to him, while numerous agents hop around from one spot to another to comply with police regulations which say they cannot remain...