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Search committees for the positions have not yet been established, said Edith M. Stokey, secretary of the K-School...
...very rare reproduction of the Code of Justinian which served as the basis of "all European law and legal scholarship for several hundred years" is the choice of Edith Henderson, curator of Langdell Library's Treasure Room. Henderson keeps this book, one of the few extant reproductions in the world, secured away, out of public view...
Harvard Law School has a library collection which equals the school in distinction. The Treasure Room of the Law School's Langdell Library contains "the only serious collection of English legal manuscripts in the country," curator Edith Henderson proudly boasts. "Langdell's Treasure Room owns one third more books than the British Museum Library and some item which you can't find at either Oxford or Cambridge," Henderson added...
Sexual practices probably change far less over the years than do people's ways of talking about them-or not talking. Gay does, however, examine such oddities as Edith Wharton's asking her mother about her wedding night, "What will happen to me?" and Mama answering only that men and women are "made differently," and "Don't ask me any more silly questions." But in his wanderings through the high and low cultures of half a dozen nations, Gay finds far more evidence of bourgeois couples coupling. And procreating. And writing down all kinds of details...
...Gramercy Park is a bit too comfortable to be considered typical, and it has distinguishing characteristics one would not find in most small towns. An artistic tradition, for one thing. Over the 150 years of its existence the area has been home to William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Horace Greeley. Herman Melville lived out his life here, embittered by the public's dismissal of Moby Dick. Stephen Crane finished The Red Badge of Courage in his place on 23rd Street. Nathanael West, author of The Day of the Locust worked as night manager in the Kenmore Hotel...