Word: elizabethans
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...University Libraries, and it is in this subject that Harvard has forged ahead, most impressively during the past year Chiefly through the generosity of Mr. William A White's children and other members of his family, the Library has added 268 titles from his remarkable collection of contemporary Elizabethan literature. These include his exception ally full series of first editions of BenJonson's plays, which heretofore has been one of the noticeable weak spots in the library. For nearly all the other dramatists who were contemporaries of Shakespeare and Johnson. Harvard has long had a very strong position judged...
...eagerness of book levers to secure everything with any pretence of literary form written in Elizabethan or Stuart times, carries its lesson to a library which expects to be a workshop for students of literature in the long future Harvard is now in a position to anticipate future demands more confidently, by a steady building up of its collection of contemporary poetry Mr. Morris Gray, '77, made this possible by the gift in the early spring of $12,000, of which $2,000 was for immediate use in supplying publications of the recent past, so that the income...
...national reputation, come from other colleges and universities this year to teach in the Summer School. In addition, 80 members of the University teaching staff will serve throughout the summer. Among the outstanding scholars are Professor Hunley W. Herrington, of the University of Syracuse, who will lecture on the Elizabethan Drama and Poets of the Nineteenth Century, and Professor Albert Feuillerat, of the University of Rennes, who is this year Exchange Professor at Yale, who will lecture on the Romantic Poets, and also on Shakespeare's Development as a Dramatic Poet...
...designed a wagon to grind corn while it rolled along. He built up the navy, encouraged business, absorbed Wales, pacified (for a few moments) Ireland, weakened hostile Scotland, played the flute, started a book, jousted in the tiltyard, began the great English age that was to be called Elizabethan...
...arrangements now in progress for the proper housing and correlation of the valuable libraries of poetry belonging to the University. Few institutions can boast such completeness as that afforded by the Norton gifts. Practically all the important, and a great deal of the lesser, verse written in English since Elizabethan times are here represented. With this material as a background the collection of modern verse left the University by Miss Lowell should combine with the books bought by the Gray fund to give Harvard a poetry library unique in this counrty...