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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know your Friend and other complexes as you of course should you will eat this play alive Sometimes, the reviewer being more or less innocent of such matters, thought that he was being privileged to listen to dialogue which was somewhat over his rather low brow, but this perhaps is to be expected from the pen of the Pulitzer Prize winner, the author of "They Knew What They Wanted" and "Ned MeCobb's Daughter...
Sixty-five years ago, when Alice Pleasance Liddell was 12 years old, she used often to talk to a friend of her father's called Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was an instructor in mathematics at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford. Alice Liddell's father, a member of the team of Liddell and Scott, famed in all schools and colleges for their Greek Lexicon, was Dean of Christ Church. Mr. Dodgson too had done some writing. Some of it, mathematical treatises and such, he had published under his own name. Other and lighter works, such...
Alice Pleasance Liddell, a little girl who may well be envied by all the children who have ever wanted to be told a story, took good care of the writing her friend had given her. When it was known, a short time ago, that she wanted to sell it, people wondered why. What kind of wonderland is this, they said, in which a little girl so fails to keep the "simple and loving heart of her childhood," that she will part with something that other persons find precious when it should be ten times more precious to her than...
...Loveday-such was not her "lay." As she explained to a friend (not her mother, who would never have understood), "I'm not a humbug; . . . I say all open and sunny: What I really want is for you to give me a good time. ... In return I'll keep company with you!-literally. . . . They can judge, then, if my company's worth it. What's to prevent them running? . . . It's the same high seas and black flag...
...difficult at the present writing to formulate any definite policy of running an organization as complicated as the University Library, but I plan to follow along the lines so well laid down and so well carried out, which my deceased friend and predecessor, Professor A. C. Coolidge instituted. The problems are in part the question of additional space, in part the choice of various fields in which special attention should be devoted to building up our collections; but the fundamental point at issue is to make the Library an organization which will continue in the future as it has done...