Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice items in the exhibition is an inscribed first edition of Poe's "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque." Poe's poverty was such that it prevented his giving away many of his books, and these two volumes are among the few known copies presented by him to other people. Bound specially for the purpose, they are inscribed "For Miss Anna and Miss Bessie Pedder, from their most sincere friend, the Author...
...page Thoreau manuscript next attracts one's attention. The manuscript consists entirely of rough notes and constitutes one of the "fact books" which the great naturalist was known to keep...
According to Coolidge, the name of his successor will not be made known until September...
...present little is known of the relative merits of the two second Freshman crews. The Harvard eight has acquitted itself creditably in the daily sprints which it has had with the regular Freshman crew, but it is considerably lighter than the Technology boat...
...many years ago, before the two deadly products of the White Man-fire-arms and fire-water-had dispossessed the Indian from his native soil, the Red Men, in what is now New Hampshire, frequently visited the Place of the Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill...