Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone visiting this loan exhibition of the volumes of undergraduate and graduate book collectors will be struck by the wide range of tastes represented. There are choice editions of such Eighteenth authors as Lord Chesterfield. Joseph Addison, and William Shenstone from the libraries of W. A. C. Miller, III, '34 and H. S. Glazier, Jr. ocC., together with one or two items of incunabula. Especially noteworthy are the special groups, each containing a number of choice items of a particular writer. One of these is the selection from the Rupert Brooke collection of R. W. Baker, Jr. '34, which includes...
...seen from various angles at sufficient distances. Exhibitions of modern German art have been arranged. Instead of mere reproductions, original works of sculpture are being shown, as well as drawings and paintings, a field formerly neglected by the museum. Furthermore there are being given periodically concerts of seventeenth and eighteenth century music, much in keeping with the atmosphere of the museum. Likewise lectures on art both in German and English have been schedulled...
...program will include mainly English, German, and American Folk melodies, and arias from eighteenth century, featuring a selection of Bach Chorals. Mr. Wilson is expected to render some of his arrangements of negro spirituals, and also a group of modern songs. He has not announced the complete program...
Thorlaksson was one of the most important leelandic poets of the late eighteenth century. The author of many poems, his most notable work was probably this translation, which was carried back to England by a member of a British religious organization. Mr. E. Henderson, whose name appears on the fly leaf of the second volume...
...Lancey for many years has devoted himself to researches on the great military painter and is at present preparing a book by which he hopes to place Casanova in his proper position among his contemporaries of the eighteenth century. Harris has recently been collaborating with him, and both were feted by the town of Lyons on the discovery. The two collectors have also been recommended to the French government for recognition...