Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brick Row Print and Book Shop, recently incorporated by a group of Yale graduates, desirous of offering undergraduates the chance of forming a discriminating acquaintance with old books and prints, was informally opened at New Haven early in the week. Some 200 undergraduates and about 25 members of the faculty were present. Professor E. B. Reed of Yale outlined the prospective growth of the new shop and its many advantages...
...American student, according to Professor Reed, has never been able to enjoy the privilege every foreign student possesses: the opportunity to find old books for himself, to browse about shelves untroubled by a clerk at his elbow. Although students here are as fond of reading as those across the sea, there are no counterparts in this country of book stores near Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books...
...Yale institution will be in second-hand books of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Good editions of the writers of the Queen Anne and Georgian ages may be purchased reasonably and the time is not far away when the upper room of the shop will be stacked with old authors whom all know or should know...
...epoch in Yale life. It has a convenient location and the shop is itself attractive. This augurs well for its future and its aim is to have something for everyone: books in fine bindings, first editions, books illustrated by famous artists, Americana, books about Yale and by Yale graduates, old-time literature, prints and original drawings...
...Hamlet" will be acted upon an old English stage, first constructed in 1893 for the presentation of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman." The stage was afterwards remodeled at great expense and is now the most nearly perfect Elizabethan stage in existence. The last time it was used was in 1907 when Maude Adams acted "Twelfth Night" on it. The reconstruction of this stage for use in Sanders Theatre will be started about the middle of April under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker...