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...Library this week. They are a collection of various editions of Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carols," including one copy of the first edition, and also a letter written to Charles Sumner by Dickens. There is also a collection of books printed by Bruce Rogers, and some Christmas cards from the Merrymount Press. Completing the exhibit is a recent book containing the prologue which was read at the opening of the theatre of Professor G. P. Baker '87 at Yale...
...award for the advertisement most effective in the use of the Typography, was also appointed, consisting of Joseph M. Bowles of the William Edwin Rudge Company, Printing House of New York; Everett R. Currier, President of Currier and Hartford, Ltd., New York; and D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press, Boston...
Entertainment will be furnished by Bert Lowe's best seven-piece orchestra and by the Merrymount double quartet. One feature of the evening will be the performance of W. S. Wilson '27 and J. H. Wright '25, the stars of the Hasty Pudding show, who will execute a dance. Refreshments will be served and souvenirs distributed...
Partial plans for the Freshman smoker of May 5 at the Union were announced yesterday. Entertainment will be supplied by Bert Lowe's seven-piece orchestra, conducted in person, and by a double quartet known as the Merrymount Merrymakers. The feature of the entertainment will be the performance of W. S. Wilson '27 and J. H. Wright '25, famed for their dancing in the Basty Pudding show. The list of speakers for the smoker will be announced on Monday...
...excerpt from the diary of that old Puritan, Samuel Sewall, shows how completely the order of the English Parliament in 1644 put an end to merry Christmas. All the hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on Merrymount, until dour Cromwell was succeeded by the lively Charles. Then one by one they came back until in 1719 Sewall mournfully writes "New England men came hither to avoid anniversary days, the keeping of them, such as the twenty-fifth of December...