Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When an exhibition of some original manuscripts of Dylan Thomas opens later this spring at Houghton Library, the Welsh poet will take his place beside Harvard's first charter and Edwin Booth's last cigar. Within the walls of the red-brick, air-tight, thief-proof building are not only one of the world's best known collections of rare books, but also University documents and historical curios...
Many of the library's oldest manuscripts date from before 1500, while others include first editions of Thomas Wolfe, Herman Melville, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton's theatre collection is one of its most unusual attractions--even holding the answer to "whether Macbeth should be played in quilts." A rare series of seventeenth century American almanacs, precursors to Poor Richard, are especially valuable and amusing. Among the wise saying are the following: 'All men like money; some their wives," and "He that marries for love has good nights but sorry days." The world's largest series of books and manuscripts...
...Square's educational bordelles had been experiencing difficulty, however. Their first major trouble came in 1933, when Macmillan, Houghton Miffin, Harper Brothers, and Ginn and Company brought suit against the College Tutoring Bureau charging that their abridging of text-books constituted a violation of copyright laws. A federal district court awarded the publishers damages and enjoined the College Tutors from continuing such practices...
Other Overseer candidates are: Myles P. Baker '22, Boston Physician; Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. '29, President, Steuben Glass, Inc., New York; Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. '29, President, Cincinnati & Suburban Telephone Co.; Clarence C. Little '10, Director, Rosco B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; Malcolm E. Peabody '11, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, Syracuse; Nicholas Roosevelt '14, author, Big Sur, Calif.; and H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, of Boston Science Museum...
Williams, a poet and editor of several anthologies, expressed the hope that his gift would form the basis of a larger collection of Thomas' writings in Houghton...