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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two underlying causes of this decrease in interest. The most important is that men are beginning to feel the reward is not worth the effort, and of as importance, that the reward means very little more than a title in the long run. Connecting this decrease in extra curricular work and the increased number of men graduating with scholastic honors the general trend becomes obvious...
...remarkable collection of contemporary Elizabethan literature. These include his exception ally full series of first editions of BenJonson's plays, which heretofore has been one of the noticeable weak spots in the library. For nearly all the other dramatists who were contemporaries of Shakespeare and Johnson. Harvard has long had a very strong position judged by the early editions, and this has now been made much more secure by the addition of all the plays in the White collection which were not already at Harvard...
...eagerness of book levers to secure everything with any pretence of literary form written in Elizabethan or Stuart times, carries its lesson to a library which expects to be a workshop for students of literature in the long future Harvard is now in a position to anticipate future demands more confidently, by a steady building up of its collection of contemporary poetry Mr. Morris Gray, '77, made this possible by the gift in the early spring of $12,000, of which $2,000 was for immediate use in supplying publications of the recent past, so that the income...
Midway in time between these two extremes, the ear has brought to Harvard a large collection of eighteenth century English fiction Some of these books have been "collector's items," additions to the shelves devoted to the outstanding literary lights, but by far the more important portion comprises long forgotten novels by equally un known authors, who were none the less the writers who in their own day supplied the reading matter for the larger part of the book buying public. The eighteenth century is the period of English literature where Harvard's position is challenged most dangerously by Yale...
...other languages, or on other parts of the political world. But nothing is plame than that Englishmen have always been influenced very greatly by Kahan writers, and that an acquaintance with Italian literature is an essential back ground to a full appreciation of that of Britain. This has long been recognized as one of the subjects which was inadequately represented at Cambridge, and the realization of this added to the deep disappointment a few years ago, when an opportunity to secure a very large Italian collection had to be declined because the necessary money could not be secured. This loss...