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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gift and exchange collections were received of plants from Newfoundland, Palestine, Brazil, Ontario and Quebee, Mexico, Indo-China, and many of the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FERNALD ISSUES REPORT ON NEW TOTAL OF PLANTS, FERNS IN GRAY HERBARIUM | 12/18/1940 | See Source »

After the awards were made and Coach Francis Cady 31, was given a gift, retiring captain Walter Chessman '41 addressed the gathering. This presentation of medals for House sports sets a precedent which is expected to be followed for future victorious Adams House teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLD COASTERS CHOOSE NEAGLE AS FOOTBALL CAPTAIN FOR 1941 | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

Eighteen important volumes of Americans, filling gaps in the Harvard collections, were presented by Arthur A. Houghton Jr. '29, of Corning, N. Y. Included in the gift were a first editionof Anne Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse," 1650; a first edition of William Wood's "New Englands Prospect," 1634, the first detailed account of Massachusetts; and the only known copy of one of the earliest books printed by William Bradford in New York, "Some Seasonable Considerations for the good People of Connections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR POSTPONES SHIPMENT OF EUROPEAN BOOKS TO WIDENER | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

...special gift from Harry Harkness Flagler made possible the enlargement of the quarters of the Poetry Room of the Library, originally set up and endowed by Mr. Flagler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR POSTPONES SHIPMENT OF EUROPEAN BOOKS TO WIDENER | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

Three days before Christmas, at Burbank's Union Air Terminal, workers will trundle out the plane, done up in cellophane and red ribbons. They will be disappointed if Lord Lothian is not there to see their gift christened The Spirit of Lockheed-Vega with two bottles of champagne (one for Lockheed, one for Vega...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spirit of Lockheed-Vega | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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