Word: london
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have sent their works to the library are Judge Robert Grant '73. T. W. Balch '90, R. W. Hale '92, Charles Warren '89 C.M. Flandran '95, and James F. Rhodes h.'01, William E. Furness '06, of Chicago, has given sixty volumes, and Mr. R. C. Lehmann of London has given his book entitled "Anni Fugaces...
...know but little about John Harvard. His father, Robert Harvard was a well to-do butcher of London, in which city John was born in 1607. At the time of Shakespere's death, nine years later, John Harvard was living in Stratford. In 1637 he came to Charlestown, but lived only a year in his new home...
...Semitic Department has lately purchased a valuable collection of Semitic manuscripts from Quaritch, the London dealer. The collection consists of about twenty manuscripts, some of which are over five hundred years old. The precise periods from which they date cannot be stated, as they have not as yet been thoroughly investigated...
...portrait of Major Higginson was painted by Sargent during the summer, when the former was in London. As matters now stand the money received forms only about one-half of the sum required for both the portrait and the shield. A new committee will be appointed shortly and the work of collecting the remainder of the required sum will be begun...
...College Library has lately received from Dr. S. A. Green, Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a copy of Virgil "ad usum Delphini," printed in London in 1:40, which has served four generations of Harvard graduates as a text book; it bears the school-boy autographs of its last three owners, while the name of the first owner has been written by another, presumably by his father. The successive users of the book were Joshua Green, of the Class of 1749, his son Joshua, of the class of 1784, his grandson Joshua, of the class...