Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informal opening yesterday of the first exhibit by the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art showed a restraint which should do much to ensure the success of the new project. By avoiding the sort of sensationalism which shrieks like a spoiled child for attention, those in charge have insured a tolerant attitude from the more conservative of their patrons without jeopardizing the interest of the more advanced...
...appearance of more radical productions is to be expected, but the continuance of the present wisdom of those in charge should certainly result in a corresponding development in the taste of its patrons. Certainly false felts are quelled and a satisfactory hope for the future aroused by the initial exhibit of this most recent addition to the complex of advantages that is Harvard...
...President Coolidge signed a Congressional resolution authorizing some future President to invite foreign nations to exhibit at a Chicago World's Fair in 1933-provided there is one. After its costly experience with Philadelphia's Sesqui-Centennial in 1926, the U. S. attached strings: Chicago must show $5,000,000 as a cash guarantee before the invitations go out; the U. S. Treasury is to be put to not a penny's expense...
Duplicates of books which brought fabulous prices in the sale of the Kerne library in New York last month are now on exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room. All of the books have been picked from the Harry Elkins Widener collection, the duplicates of the more expensive books in the Kerne sale being selected. Hardly a volume duplicated in the present Widener exhibit sold for less than a thousand dollars in the recent New York sale...
Robert Browning's "Pauline" of which there are reputed to be but 11 copies in the world, brought $16,000. The exact duplicate of this volume is included in the Memorial Room exhibit. A Kilmamork edition of Burns which sold for $6,750 in New York because of the few lines of Burn's hand-writing contained in it, may be found in duplicate form in the Widener collection, the Widener volume containing several pages of the renowned poet's handwriting...