Word: potts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purchase of the great Philosophical library which belonged to the late August F. Pott, of Halle-a-Saale, Germany, has been completed by the University of Pennsylvania. The library consists of 2,900 titles and between 4,500 and 5,000 volumes of rare and valuable books on Philology...
Students of English 2 will be interested to learn of the publication of a pamphlet on the Shakspeare-Bacon controversy by the distinguished Shaksperean scholar, Dr. E. Engel. He severely ridicules the writings of Miss Delia Bacon and Miss Pott, and classes them with the recent discovery that Hamlet was a woman in disguise...
...Fellows drank out of silver 'potts," each man having his own. In 1622 "Mr. Cruso's pott" was mended at a cost of 2s., and several entries of old cups changed for new ones (the Fellow who had the use of it contributing out of his private means as to get a larger or finer goblet) show how it is that old silverware is so hard to find nowadays. But they did not always drink out of the nobler metal, "a little jug and pott for the fellows in ye halle and parlour" being bought...