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...first books Mr. Fearing gave to the University were the Persius Collection, gathered by him and the late Professor Morris H. Morgan. The two men had been schoolmates at St. Mark's, and after Professor Morgan had got together a fairly large number of Persius, he naturally turned to his friend whose pursuit of angling books had brought him into correspondence with booksellers everywhere.--The result was the largest collection of the sort in America. The present "Fearing Collection" of books on angling was given to the Library, when it first occupied the new Widener Building. It contains over...
...large number of the more interesting volumes from the remarkable Persius Collection given to the College Library by Professor M. H. Morgan shortly before his death in 1910 will be on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Gore Hall today, tomorrow and Saturday, from 10 to 5 o'clock. The exhibition will be open both to members of the University and to the public. Strangers should inquire at the delivery desk in Gore Hall for tickets of admission...
...world's greatest printers, from the fifteenth century to the present time, and thus illustrate not only the progress of classical scholarship but also the history of the art of printing. The collection consists of editions, translations, revisions, and re-issues, together with a large number of writings on Persius, a Roman satirist born in 34 A. D., and third in order of the great Roman satirists. His work is chiefly devoted to the exposition of the doctrine propounded by the stories and developed according to their doctrine, and has had a diffused and enduring popularly...
...COLLEGE LIBRARY, Exhibition of Editions and Translations of Persius form the Collection of Professor Morris H. Morgan. Treasure Room, Gore Hall, 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. The exhibition will be continued on Friday and Saturday at the same hours...
...College. He travelled extensively, and in 1904 lectured on Greek Literary Criticism at the Summer School of the University of California. He also published many works, including a Latin grammar and many translations of Greek and Latin authors. His latest works are "Addresses and Essays," and "A Bibliography of Persius." Just before his death, he gave his whole collection of books on the latter subject, consisting of some 660 works, to the College Library...