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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colony, made important educational be quests to New England in order "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times. The Detur prizes are among the oldest to be given at Harvard...
...University. The Crimson, having made a canvass within that institution, has discovered that The Nation ranks third on the list of weekly magazines in popularity among those who voted in this referendum. Only the Saturday Evening Post and Liberty surpassed us in the esteem of the thinkers in our oldest American university. Advertising agencies and national advertisers will please take notice that in esteem, if not in circulation, we outrank the Ladies' Home Journal, the Pictorial Review, Vanity Fair, Judge, Life, and the Police Gazette. Who shall say hereafter that the highbrow student does not turn to highbrow publications? Henceforth...
Died. Prince Rudda di Trabia, seven times a prince, thrice a duke, four times a marquis, overlord of seven Italian towns, head of reputedly the oldest family in Sicily...
...modern book, just published, and in its rareness comparable to many of the oldest volumes will be shown in Boston next week. The book is "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by Colonel T. E. Lawrence, who has set the price on each of the ten copies of the edition...
Another feature of the current exhibition is two Greek manuscripts. One of these, consisting of six leaves of uncial letters, is among the oldest works in the library, probably dating back to the ninth or tenth century. The other is of the twelfth century. Both were the gifts of Edward Everett...