Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...being in fine condition, but the others had had their titles mended, and were otherwise not so perfect as a collector would be glad to see them. For the first, $1,190 was paid; for the second, $177; for the third, $363; for the fourth, $120. Cardinal Ximenez's Polyglot Bible, in six volumes, fetched $830; Cicero's Letters, first edition (Rome, 1470), $135; the first edition of Homer, $355, and Wycliffe's New Testament, (manuscript, about...
...Harvard then, as now, also was the victim of envy and slander. How bravely and unconcernedly she has borne it all these years! We give a specimen of the wit of the Register on the subject of "Cutting in all its Branches," a justification from the papers of the Polyglot Club, once a famous institution of the college: "We cut our teeth in the cradle-cut our fingers and capers while children-cut a figure in our teens-and, at last, Atropos, with her black cap and Damascus scissors, cuts short the thread of our existence. Take almost any case...