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As John Donne wrote. "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind."

Author: By Michael D. Knobler, | Title: Paying Respects | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

The room opens into a rotunda with wall to wall shelves of original works by such authors as John Donne, Samuel Coleridge, and Cotton Mather.

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Treasure in the Stacks | 2/2/1984 | See Source »

Before he died in 1912, Widener had collected 3,000 volumes of what he considered to be the 100 most important works in English literature. Whether saved because of their fine bindings or illustrious owners, the Widener collection heralds the first folio of Shakespeare's plays, and various works by...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Treasure in the Stacks | 2/2/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Maurice Be Monte, 87, French navigator and radio operator on the first nonstop Paris-to-New York transatlantic flight; in Paris. In 1930 Bellonte and Pilot Dieu-donne Costes reversed Charles Lindbergh's 1927 course in their crimson Bre-guet sesquiplane Question Mark. Taking off from Le Bourget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 30, 1984 | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

But even at the moment that a teacher of literature is doing his job, the work is hard to put a name to. What precisely is it that you did, Professor Bush? Every teacher knows the boredom and terror of that question. A teacher of French teaches French, a teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Odd Pursuit of Teaching Books | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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