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...Quarto editions of Shakespeare are extremely rare; certain of them exist in unique copies only, while the total number of known copies of any single volume in no case exceeds 40. Hitherto the Harvard Library has owned only three of them. Apart from their scarcity, these editions derive their chief value from the fact that they are contemporary with the author himself, while the famous First Folio was published after his death. The text of the Quartos is not always accurate, but it contains the most curious and suggestive differences from the Folio texts and is of great value...
...their month-long Quadrennial Conference, Methodists meeting in Kansas City decided who should succeed the retiring Bishop of New York, Luther Barton Wilson, who is aged and somewhat infirm. Bishop Francis John McConnell, hitherto of Pittsburgh, was the man they chose...
Among the materials drawn on by Professor S. E. Morison '08 in preparing an historical outline of Harvard for the booklet on Harvard history and traditions, now being published by the CRIMSON for distribution to next year's Freshman class, is a half sheet of hitherto unpublished notes for an address of President Eliot. The notes which are now preserved in manuscript form in Widener library are evidently a rough summary of points which President Eliot intended to bring out in an impending talk to some group of students. They give in concise form the characteristics which he thought most...
...loves and understands Christ. It explains his refusal of the high post to which he had been elected. The Methodists did not choose another bishop in his place. Instead they elected the Rev. Edwin F. Lee of Singapore, to be missionary bishop to the Malaya provinces, a position hitherto held by one of the regular bishops of the church. For the rest in the last week of their session, the Methodists refused to abolish life tenure of bishops;* went on record against military training for schoolboys; accepted the recommendations of the Committee on Episcopacy to the effect that there...
...current craze for the day's news in tabloid has lately invaded the precincts hitherto ruled by scholarship unchallenged, and has given us history, literature, philosophy, and even the sum of man's knowledge packed between the covers of single volumes for the enrichment and delectation of those who wish to become educated in nine days. An examination of the table of contents of Mr. Parsons' book might lead one to believe that it is just another by product of the boiling-down of the elements of the story of the earth. But it is in reality more than that...