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...brother Jacob Frederick, reputed world's biggest wool merchant, who flies a Boston Yacht Club flag. Up to his last illness he wrote sea yarns for the Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman. Modest, despite his immense knowledge and creditable learning, he had a quaint way of submitting his salty MSS. to University-bred employees, "just to have a glance over the grammar and syntax...
...possibly Jesus was a man short of stature, possibly only about 5 ft. 2 in. Such last week was the British analysis attributed to Dr. James Rendel Harris, curator of MSS at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, Eng. Dr. Harris is one of the greatest living authorities on biblical history and texts. At one time he was a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Most of his life he has spent in the East searching for manuscripts. Thus in a Syriac document of the Eighth Century, just deciphered, he has found this reference to Christ's stature: "Thy stature...
...following program will be rendered: Mozart, Quartet in G major; Brahms, Quartet in B-flat major, op. 67, No. 3; Grieg, Two Movements completed by Julius Roentgen, senior, to the Unfinished Quartet in F major (Posth.) (MSS., first time...
CHAMBER CONCERT. The Kneisel Quartet. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 8 P. M. Program: Mozart in G Major; Brahms, Quartet in B-flat major, op. 67, No. 3; Grieg, Two Movements completed by Julius Roentgen, senior, to the Unfinished Quartet in F major (Posth.) (MSS., first time...
...decidedly well worth reading. "The Joys of Old Age," an address by H. H. Furness '54 at the annual dinner of the Philadelphia Harvard Club, "Judge W. C. Endicott and Harvard," by J. H. Choate '52, "A Football Game Thirty Years Ago," by J. T. Wheelwright '76, and "Harvard MSS. in the Library of Congress," give a reminiscent touch which balances well with the articles of very present interest...