Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centered in the Oval Lobby, the walls of which are occupied by twelve collections, ranging from 181 editions of Persius behind one set of glass doors, to the original Harvard College textbooks and Charter of 1650 behind another. Montaigne, the Theatre Collection, and Philip Hofer's newly organized Graphic Arts Department are the subjects of some of the other exhibits. These books are selections from much larger collections kept downstairs...
...Keats Memorial Room, and to a long corridor occupied by collections of Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, and other modern authors. The remainder of the top floor is still in the possession of the painters and carpenters. In the other direction, the stairs wind down to the Department of Graphic Arts, the seminar room, and administration offices...
Everything, it seems at first, is in this book; such ghoulish, semi-slang tintypes as "God's image cut in ebony" (for Negro); such beautifully graphic trade terms as the miner's "snow" (for the sifting of earth presaging a cave-in), the ballplayer's "floater" (for a slow ball), the prostitute's "pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they...
Philip Hofer '21, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, in addition to 3,000 volumes from his collection, furnished a room and established an endowment for the study of printing and the graphic arts. Elizabethan literature from the Williams A. White Collection was received from Harold T. White '97 and Mrs. Hugh Marshall...
Exhibits of printing and the graphic arts have already been arranged in the Exhibition Room and the room given by Philip Hofer '21, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts. In the Oval Lobby collections of works by Milton, Donne and Mather are on exhibition. The ancient records of the University placed there include the sole remaining volume of the original donation given the embryonic College by John Harvard in 1638. The remainder of that collection was destroyed in the fire of January...