Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breath, or, in the evening, to strum a bit on his guitar. He violated all Tin-Pan Alley tradition when he let his song ramble moodily along, instead of limiting himself to a cut-&-dried 32-bar chorus. But his publishers were not impressed when he gave them his manuscript two years ago, a rude affair with a simple melody line sketched in, the words squeezed underneath in cramped, schoolboyish writing. They tucked it away in a safe and forgot about it until a few months ago when Addy Britt, an alert young song-plugger, quietly took...
...practices of the heathen. These tactics were always successful. So the only remains of a rich aboriginal literature are scraps like this, saved only because a pair of bored and undutiful clerks at Fulda wasted their time scratching a few lines of forbidden ballads into the cover of the manuscript which the Father Superior had set them copying...
Professor Hedges has been secured to carry on the work of Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, who is absent on sabbatical leave. It is understood that this course will also supplant that of Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History on Manuscript materials on American Colonial History, which is to be omitted during the second half year...
...next exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library will consist of valuable old documents pertaining to the early history of Harvard College and the colonies, and will include the earliest known views of the College and interesting text books in manuscript. The exhibits are now in preparation and will be ready Monday...
...series of short walks sees some of Boston's most interesting features. Arriving on Boston Common the party first visits the State House the front of which was designed by Charles Bullfinch, and erected in 1795. Doric Hall, Memorial Hall, the State Library, (containing the Bradford Manuscript), and the halls of the executive and legislative departments are among the most interesting features of this building. A short time is then taken to enter the Granary Burying Ground and King's Chapel Burying Ground where are buried many of the early leaders of Massachusetts. King's Chapel, the first Episcopal Church...