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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This week there is on exhibition in the Widener Room of the Memorial Library a collection of some of the earliest English printings. Perhaps the most interesting piece on exhibit is one leaf from "The Canterbury Tales", published in 1488 by William Caxton, the first English printer. This single page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAXTON PAGE OF CANTERBURY TALES SHOWN IN WIDENER | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

Perhaps the most beautiful of the volumes being shown is the "Story of King Arthur and the Round Table", printed by William Copland in 1557. There is only one other complete copy of this book in existence; and that rests now in the British Museum. Printed first in ordinary black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAXTON PAGE OF CANTERBURY TALES SHOWN IN WIDENER | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

In Greensburg, Pa., new convicts at Westmoreland County jail were presented by the warden with a "greetings" folder such as hotels hand their guests. Excerpts : "My friend, for a little while you and I are compelled to live under the same roof, and, in a way, to be in each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

In its depiction of War, the novel bears comparison with its best predecessors. But it is in the hero's perhaps unethical quitting of the battle line to be with the woman whom he has gotten with child that it achieves its greatest significance. Love is more maligned in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man, Woman, War | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

It has been pointed out before and it can well be pointed out again that there are several obvious fallacies in the arguments of those who uphold the thesis that the colleges are headed for hell and damnation because the stadiums are packed on autumn Saturday afternoons. In the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OVER-EMPHASIS BUGABOO | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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