Word: libraryful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mr. John S. Thacher, head of the University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. which sold the painting, explained, "The purpose of Dumbarton oaks is Byzantine Studies, and the painting was sold so we could buy some Byzantine art. The donors approved entirely of the sale...
Overdue. In St. Louis, the privately owned Mercantile Library doubled its annual user's fee to $10 per person, the first increase in charges since it was founded 112 years ago.
The Harvard years, however, had been far from futile. It was here that his style and outlook developed as it never had before, and would not again. During his years at Harvard, Wolfe acquired a vast literary background. He read voraciously, eight or ten books a week, even in the...
In the year 1943 I had a very talented student at the Conservatory by the name of John A. Finnegan. After a year with me he went on to Harvard and subsequently graduated after a stint in the Navy. He very quickly displayed the same type of talent for arranging...
It can easily be seen that the above represents a considerable amount of creative activity over a period of years by a number of people; therefore, the recent fire which did most of its damage in the library assumes serious proportions when one realizes that a substantial percentage of the...