Word: gold
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Brooks House has been presented a complete set of the works of Phillips Brooks, published by E.P. Dutton & Company. The set is an edition de luxe, bound in calf, and numbers twelve volumes. Each volume has stamped in gold on one side "Harvard University" and on the other "Phillips Brooks House." The frontispiece of the first volume is an excellent steel engraving of the author. Rev. John Cotton Brooks is the editor of the edition...
...purchasing power of money. In vegetable and mineral products the purchasing power has increased from thirty to forty per cent, although there has been some decline in the animal products quoted. Mr. Wright then showed his own tables which give the increase in the purchasing power of gold and the decrease in that of silver. But in reality the increase in the laborer's gross earnings has been to a great extent curtailed by reason of the expenses resulting from the improvements in his condition. On the other hand, the improvement in the condition of the laborer is largely...
...management aims to do away with the large amount of unreadable matter that is often found in programmes of this kind. The covers will be 10 1-2 by 6 1-4 inches in size, and of antique gray color. On the front a design of blue, crimson and gold will be embossed, and the seals of the two universities, printed in the same color, will be stamped on the back cover...
Through the liberality of Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 four more original works of art have just been added to the collection of the Fogg Museum, three of which are now to be seen on the wall of the upper gallery. They are; A painting in tempera on a gold ground by Benvenuto de Siena, representing the Madonna enthroned with saints; a painting in tempera attributed to Pinturicchio, of the Madonna and Child on a gold ground, and an oil painting of the Venetian School representing the Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John. The first of these...
...members of a University team the University Debating Club presents a black cap bearing a red "H" over crossed gavels, a University hat band and a gold medal shaped after the pattern of a Roman coin...