Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition of pictures of early prize fighters is now on view in the Reading Room of the Union. The group, which has been borrowed from the Widener Library, consists of many original drawings and water colors collected by Evert Jansen Wendell '82. Mr. Wendell, who started to collect material of every description on theatres and athletics while in the University, gathered together a great many pictures. When he died in 1918, he willed his collection to the University Library which was to keep as many as it wished. This donation gives Widener Library the greatest amount of available material...
...conceive the difficulties that we have encountered. The village is so overcrowded with refugees that it was almost impossible to secure quarters. Fuel is very expensive, and it was almost impossible to collect enough furniture and equipment in general to start with. Then, too, you have no idea how suspicious people are of any unselfish undertaking. The Turks especially object to every charitable project...
...ruins. It is an historical monument, and the government would interfere with any change. The American universities have raised $500,000 to erect a new library, which will probably be built outside the city on more extensive grounds. I don't know when they will begin to collect books, but we want to have a library as soon as possible; I could not understand a university without a library...
...there, wonderful to behold was the brief statement "HOURS and EXAMINATION Groups of the Several Courses" (the capitals are our own). Here is the key to the mystery. The problem is solved. Absurdly, simple after all. Place the forefinger under the hour eleven on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and collect one course. Do the same on the opposite page. Now turn back to the center of the book lest a thesis has crept up on you unawares...
Professor P. J. Sachs '00 of the Fine Arts Department will leave Cambridge today for Europe to make extensive visits to the Continental Art Museums. Professor Sachs, who is an assistant professor of fine arts and assistant director of the Fogg Art Museum, plans to collect many art objects of interest to University members and add them to the collections at the Fogg Museum...