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...first folio of Shakespeare's works, printed at London in 1632, the Widener library has one copy, formerly the property of Harry Elkins Widener. The greatest collection of first folios in this country, and, indeed, in the entire world, has been assembled by Mr. H. C. Folger of New York. The Folger library contains more than sixty copies of the first folio. Not all of these, to be sure, are in perfect condition, but the assembling of such a collection is in itself a gigantic task. With respect to the first folio, then, the Folger collection not only far surpasses...
...country, however, Harvard does not hold first place. The best authority in this field is the book compiled by Bartlett and Pollard, "A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto." This census of quartos, published by the Elizabethan Club at Yale, again indicates the superiority of the H. C. Folger collection. Out of a total of 886 quartos described in detail, Mr. Folger owns 124. The Henry E. Huntington library comes next with 87. Then comes the W. A. White collection numbering 54 quartos. Through the generosity of the White family, this collection was given to Harvard in June...
Bowditch scholarships were awarded to: M. C. Bradley Jr. '33, Leon Brooks '33, A. H. Daniels '33, R. H. Denison '33, J. L. Finan '33, F. G. Folger '33, L. J. Gillespie Jr. '33, J. C. Gowan '33, Henry Greenberg '33, A. M. Halpern '33, Samuel Horvitz '33, H. F. Kollmyer '33, Thomas McHugh '33, E. A. Macy '33, W. A. Munroe '33, G. M. Noss '33, H. L. Orentlicher '33, A. S. Pierce '33, A. H. Rosenthal '33, L. H. Saxe '31, Joseph Shack '33, Robert Shapiro '33, and S. J. Wener...
Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown made his appearance before the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce last week the occasion to announce his solution, which he will ask Congress to approve, of the government's air mail subsidy problem...
Statistical beyond all others was the annual report of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. His most important legislative recommendation sought punishment for blackmailers using the mails as a means of attempted extortion...