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Philip Hofer '21, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, in addition to 3,000 volumes from his collection, furnished a room and established an endowment for the study of printing and the graphic arts. Elizabethan literature from the Williams A. White Collection was received from Harold T. White '97 and Mrs. Hugh Marshall...
...Great Hall, and has occasionally been donned by the President during police raids. The window itself contains pieces of 14th century stained glass from the Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England. Across the room in a serious Frisian grandfather clock of the 17th century, and the Elizabethan mantlepiece next to it has not been dusted since 1583. The fireback is decorated with "Susannah and the Elders" in wrought iron, while tapestries and a Gothic cabinet effectively hide the crumbling north wall...
...philological dissecting table. Still, this pedagogue knew his business and could teach. He could teach mere boys to understand their Mother Tongue in its greatest period, the late 16th and early 17th centuries, until they were so saturated with it that they could write and even speak Elizabethan English. And in a time when intellectual standards have been slackened, when every arrant sentimentalist can spring a new educational theory and the wine of learning is watered, the austerity of a Kittredge, his snorting contempt for low standards, has been a bracing sea-wind in a hot-house...
...Thorpe: Elizabethan touches in the form of high standing collars on evening gowns, capes, daytime suits...
...radio speech to the world. His timing was matchless. He rang all the changes of political oratory. He slipped in sly asides that made listeners guffaw; he made them cry with his exhortation to the fallen nations. Now he lashed Britain's enemies with the splendor of Elizabethan arrogance; now he hissed at them in a way remindful of an old-time dime-novel hero polishing off the villain in the last chapter...