Word: copiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Renaissance. From the medleval scribesmen, from the letters of Petrarch, he devised the beautiful type which even today is reserved for the greatest books. From the scribesmen also he took the manuscripts on which for centuries they had been perpetuating the classics: he printed them with copious and cloquent notes, and scattered them throughout the libraries of Italy. Out of these the artists of the Renaissance took the sudden vision and the new ideal which made them famous...
Through the generosity of Lee Hart, of Rochester, New York, a copious oak exhibition case has been placed in the Lowell House Library, where it will remain in the possession of the House, and will be used from time to time for exhibits of books and other relics. The first exhibit is now being held, and consists of a recent edition of Shakspere's 'Venus and Adonis', with illustrations by Rockwell Kent...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe worked in the same office with Walter Gropius as a young man. Two years ago he followed Gropius as director of the Bauhaus. Unlike copious Gropius, who has designed innumerable buildings, van der Rohe has actually built little-possibly because of his fondness for luxurious building materials : interior walls of onyx, silk curtains 75 feet long...
...year, is not to be discontinued this fall, it was definitely announced last evening by Henry W. Clark '23, Assistant Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association. This statement sets at rest conflicting rumors to the effect that the lightweight football players were to disband permanently in order to insure copious material for the seven House teams which are to be organized...
...Souer's scholarly book is complete, accurate and well written. The volume never becomes boring even for the layman. The true merit of it, however comes in its value as a reference book for the student of that literary period. In addition to an exceedingly copious bibliography, the letters to Poliarchus are invaluable. Although Orinda did not reflect the life of the times in her writings as much as did her contemporary, Pepys, she unconsciously drew a revealing picture of herself and consequently of her times...