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...subway dime the Vagabond mused to himself that "There, but for the grace of God, was Charles Dickens". Had Dickens lived today he would have written such things, had he lived a thousand years ago he would have winded East with a Crusade. Since he lived in the Nineteenth century he wrote about corruption in the High Court of Chancery, life in the London slums, death in the sweat shops. But he was a crusader at heart, and as such, his subjects have only a transient value. It is not what he said, but the way he said it, that...
...letter suggests as amendment an initial examination of three hours dealing with the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Two hours the next day would then be devoted to the nineteenth cntury. Emphasis on more modern literature is probably determined by the fact that examinations in Bible, Shakespeare, and Ancient Authors have already been held in the Fall of the senior year...
...Poetry Room is to become a museum of first editions or for the forgotten verses of the later nineteenth century, the avowed purpose of the project is set at naught. But if it is to encourage an interest in poetry the admittedly valuable prose work must be relegated to another section of the library, the modern verse must be carefully selected and the collection of the masters greatly enlarged. The austerity which inevitably walks with first editions must be scrupulously avoided, and in its place must come the informal atmosphere which fosters literary enjoyment...
...collection of paintings and pen drawings by Randolph Caldecott will be on exhibition during this month in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. Caldecott, an English illustrator of the nineteenth century, excelled in portraying English country life. The pen sketches are largely of hunting scenes, while the paintings are of a variety of subjects including pastoral scenes and some excellent portraits of dogs...
...candidate must be a citizen of the United States, with at least five years' domicile, and unmarried. By the first of October for the year for which he is elected he must have passed his nineteenth and not have passed his twenty-fifth birthday...