Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cinema films which, with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester. N. Y. Those will be trivial gifts to the community which he has already endowed with a theatre, a school of music, a philharmonic orchestra (it has just finished its fifth season), and, source of all, an industry...
...crowd of 300 spectators. The most important prospective bidders were four: B. D. Maggs, representing Maggs Brothers of London; W. Roberts, London bibliophile, representing Gabriel Wells, Manhattan book dealer; E. H. Bring, president of Quaritch's, London dealers in rarities, reputed to be representing the British Museum; and a squat man with a pince nez, Dr. Abraham Wolf Rosenbach, one of the members of the famed Rosenbach Co., Philadelphia dealers in rare books...
...very much like a game of leapfrog; each jump was ?1,000. Mr. Dring would jump first, Mr. Maggs would outbid him, then Dr. Rosenbach would go over both of them. Dr. Rosenbach never outbid the proxy of the British Museum until his English competitor had done so. After ?10,000, the price went up more slowly. "Ten thousand and a hundred," said Mr. Dring. "And a hundred," said Mr. Maggs. Dr. Rosenbach took off his glasses; "And a hundred," he whispered. For one round, each raised the other ?10, as if they were all nearing the limit. The gallery...
...immediate purchaser in mind, or not, it was impossible to determine. A year ago people would have said that he was buying for Henry Edwards Huntington, rich California collector; last week Dr. Rosenbach was probably bidding for his own firm. After offering Alice to the British Museum, Dr. Rosenbach added ?1,000 to the national fund for buying it from...
...outlying buildings would be of assistance to undergraduates who are often at a loss to find adequate reading facilities at a critical period. This link Professor Blake is planning to forge more strongly than it now exists. The libraries in Lawrence Hall, Emerson Hall, the New Fogg Museum, and even in the Union are a mystery to a surprising number of men in the College. Systematic explanation of these and other libraries, and of the aid which they offer to many fields of concentration, will be an invaluable contribution to the mechanics of the University...