Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oration. Said he: "I salute the mortal remains of Gaston Depestel . . . who has died without ideals in the unjust war of the Viet Nam, for the armament makers and the plantation owners . . ." At that point, an Indo-China war veteran put his hand over the mayor's manuscript and said quietly: "Rien de ça Monsieur le Maire" (Cut it out, Mister Mayor...
...Club of Boston on May 10, in connection with the James Flack Norris Award by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, I said that in the future, student appraisals of faculty teaching might become part of academic routine. At this point, I was careful to read from manuscript. Therefore I am able to assure you that I did not describe such proceedings as "popularity polls," or suggest that faculty "jobs" might depend upon the "marks." George Shannon Forbes...
Bolle obtained all of the selections in manuscript from, which means that Sunday's performance was a rare one. The major recording companies, as well as most professional artists, shy away from pre-Bachian music because of its dubious commercial value. Small organizations like the Harvard-Radcliffe group can gratify music lovers and students alike by continuing to wander off the beaten track. --lower case
...years ago, they found themselves long on students and qualified professors, but short on the materials of church scholarship. Father Lowrie J. Daly, 37-year-old instructor in medieval history, suggested that his superiors ask permission to make microfilm copies of as many as 42,000 rare and ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library, which some U.S. librarians have called "the most important manuscript library in the western world." Not very hopefully, St. Louis' President Paul C. Reinert forwarded a request through church channels to the Vatican librarians...
...jubilation of the St. Louis faculty, the Vatican's permission arrived. "It was as if nobody had made copies of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta and you asked permission to do so and got it," one Jesuit gulped. Among the manuscripts likely to be photographed: the 4th Century Codex Vaticanus, a Greek Bible with the oldest and most important extant copy of the New Testament; the Codex Marchalianus, a 6th Century vellum scroll containing the complete Old Testament prophets; the original author's manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles...