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Probably the rarest item in the collection is a rough draft of "Tristram" which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1927. The poet's writing is so minute that a magnifying glass is necessary to distinguish the individual words. The earlier version has been considerably changed, and many stanzas have been completely deleted. The final draft is on view and hardly a change has been made in this. It would almost appear that Robinson wrote complete verses without alteration. This final draft is dated June 2, 1925, and has been loaned to the Library by Jules LeDoux, his New York...
...Germany was a criminal. U. S. grounds for this temporarily satisfying belief had already been plowed. ''Long before the great war propagandas began to develop from abroad, the leading organs of American opinion, through the interplay of haste, ignorance and their own psychological necessities, had begun to distinguish in the German Empire a vast, malignant power which alone and for its own atrocious ends had plunged the world into this stupendous catastrophe." "Marse Henry" Watterson. fiery editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, voiced U. S. opinion early in the War (September, 1914): "May Heaven protect the Vaterland from...
...special research on noses. Undoubtedly many treasures are in store for him. To date his study reveals that not only is the nose a very determining factor in forming the character of the face, but that certain suffers are so sensitive in their make-up that they can distinguish races, families, even houses by scent alone. This might be assumed by the ability of boodhounds to trace out individuals; but Dr. Laird hastens to drive home the point that a keen sense of smell is not confined to the lower animals. Many a good women who tells the history...
THIS volume, which is the third in the series "Life and Art in Photography," contains one hundred photographs of the principal breeds. Laymen often wonder how the experts can talk so glibly about the details which distinguish one breed from another. Few people can have known so much about dogs as Dr. Johnson, who was no expert, and who certainly did not learn what he knew from wiping his greasy fingers, after dinner, on the ready back of a collie. It is important, observed Dr. Johnson, that the bull-dog possess tenuity; the hind-legs must be relatively thin. Everybody...
...Classicist, then, should distinguish between encouraging the study of Latin and Greek and supporting a regulation that serves simply to destroy the meaning of the Harvard science degree. Subjects that retain significance and vitality in relation to modern life should be able to attract students through their intrinsic value, without requiring the artificial support of requirements. If the present rules did force uninterested students to gain a perfunctory knowledge of a classical language, their value would be doubtful; since they do not accomplish even this, they are indefensible...