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...examination was thoroughly academic, covering English literature from the earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry down to Thomas Hardy, with only a few questions on William Shakespeare or the late 19th century writers. One question was to "show by an analysis of the content, style or diction of three of the following passages in what ways they are characteristic of their authors or of the times in which they were written." The passages were taken from William Langland, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Lord Byron...
...Basket Makers are the earliest inhabitants of the Southwest of whom archeologists have any exact knowledge. They date back from 3,000 to 10,000 years. Their material culture differed considerably from that of later Indians. The chief interest of these Basket Makers for modern science lies in the fact that they were probably the first people in the United States to practice systematized agriculture. They cultivated a very primitive variety of corn from which it is believed maize is derived...
...geologist, he knew that the earliest evidences of life on the earth were fossil bacteria living in a torrid climate. But climates change in geologic time and heat loving bacteria die. The quota of bacteria must be periodically filled to keep the population thriving...
...Theatre Collection includes books, pamphlets, original drawings, photographs, prints, playbills, and relics; from the earliest seventeenth century playbill to the latest Broadway program, the files of this collection are as nearly complete as the efforts of lifelong collectors and specialists have been able to make them...
...playbills, of which there were over 350,000 in 1917, furnish an authentic history of the stage from the time of Shakespeare. The earliest playbill is that of a puppet show in Bartholomew Fair about 1682, believed to be the first playbill printed in English. In the first of the Drury Lane playbills the dramatis presonae, the names of the actors, and the author did not appear; these features were printed for the first time on the bills of 1714. It is interesting to note that many of the stars of this period resolved upon several alleged farewell performances before...