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...gold and colors". In Mr. Morgan's manuscript the animals are colored blue, brown or red, shading into white. The miniatures are framed in bands of color with a plain background, usually of gold. Herbert, in his "Illuminated Manuscripts", says that the book is one of the finest of extant Bestiaries. It was executed about 1170, and in 1187 Phillip, Canon of Lincoln, gave the book with others to the Augustinian Priory of Radford, now called Workshop. At one time the manuscript belonged to William Morris...
...library includes many valuable collections besides the dramatic material. He formed special collections of Lincolnia, New York historical material, and matter pertaining to Napoleon. His library is considered by his executor and friend, Mr. John Anderson, Jr., to be one of the most unique and extensive private collections extant...
...exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library a collection of books, views and manuscripts connected with the early history of the University. The most notable of this collection is the Burgess view of Harvard College issued in 1726, of which there is only one other copy extant. This is the earliest view of the College published. The engraving is nearly obliterated, but a later print, made from the other copy which is in the same case, enables one to fill in the gaps in the original...
...order to avert accusations of heresy or originality, we wish to submit two suggestions: (1) that these intimations of direction for the educational process emanating from spiritual development of personality as depending on material opportunities, so recently extant in the columns of the CRIMSON, be hereafter and henceforth so limited in their crass materialism as at no time to exceed two paragraphs not more than one inch in length, and a postscript of not more than one monosyllabic sentence. (2) that the reason for the overemphasis of the philosophy of Mr. Isidor Lazarus be made the subject for further exposition...
...ages beyond the present draft limit. Of course it will not become a proper measure until after the largest possible numbers have been drawn to the colors from among the men of the existing draft ages, but if, when this has been done, need is still extant, the American colleges must, in patriotism and with good heart, follow the path already made glorious by the colleges of England and France. Boston Transcript...