Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pitt victories are highspots in a career that has brought Donelli from the freshman coaching spot at Duquesne--a position at that time just slightly less important than an assistant librarian--to the point where he is recognized as one of the game's better creative minds...
...adventures of Don Quixote. Few know much about his creator. This biography (written for the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' birth) is one of the few thorough lives of Cervantes in English. Biographer Bell is an Englishman who lives in British Columbia, An Iberic scholar, he has been assistant librarian of the British Museum and editor of The Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse...
...library that today costs $1,250,000 a year to run began in 1638 with 400 books that young John Harvard brought with him from England. In spite of one testy librarian's belief that "students take books to their chambers and teare out pictures ... to adorne their walls," John Harvard's library grew into the finest in the Colonies. Then, on a stormy night in 1764, it burned to the ground. From John Harvard's collection, only one book - -John Downham's Christian Warfare Against the Deuill World and Flesh-was saved...
...Documentary Unit broadcast based on the unsealing (21 years after the death of Robert Todd Lincoln) of Lincoln's state papers. Speakers: Carl Sandburg; Illinois State Historian Jay Monaghan; University of Illinois Professor J. G. Randall; Director of the Chicago Historical Society Paul M. Angle; and Librarian of Congress Luther Evans...
Included in the earlier group are George La Piana, John H. Morison Professor of Church History Merritt L. Fernald '97, Fisher Professor of Natural History and Director of the Gray Herbarium; Alfred M. Tozzer, '00, John E. Hudson Professor of Archacology and Librarian of the Peabody Museum Library; Theodore Lyman '97, Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory; Walter F. Dearborn, professor of Education; and Dr. Varaztad H. Kazanjian, professor of Plastic Surgery...