Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently renovated, the Oriental Galleries of the Fogg Museum have been opened again to the public. The new walls and display cases have been carefully chosen to show to the best advantage the priceless pieces which make the Fogg collection one of the finest in the country...
...arrive in the late afternoon. Long before 8 p. m. they had packed the main hall of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to overflowing, were huddling on stairs, pressing into small rooms and remote galleries. Thousands sat in the shadow of suits of mail, under priceless canvases, close to marble sculptures. Thousands could not see the musicians' stand, yet all 15,000, one of the biggest indoor concert audiences ever assembled, applauded deafeningly when a slim, silver-haired old man walked on to begin conducting his twentieth series of eight free Saturday performances...
...thought the failure of undergraduates to rise and riot for more serious subjects than Richard, the expert in youth movements has struck to the core of the matter. For although other factors contribute to the Harvard man's seeming lack of interest in the world about him, the priceless heritage of freedom, for which the college for generations has carried the banner, is the undoing of serious-minded group agitation in the Yard...
...regular nine o'clock class over, he dawdles in the Farnsworth Room awhile, stops at the shelves that hold the priceless Arden Shakespeare and picks out "The Comedy of Errors". (His tutor played Antipholus of Ephesus in an amateur production of it once.) The Vagabond noses through half of the "Comedy" and compares it with the Elizabethan translation of Plautus's "Menochmi" (or "The Two Menechmuses' as some Elizabethans called it) which Shakespeare used in his play. The "Menochmi" is reprinted in Appendix B of the Arden edition. The Vagabond, if he had the money, would buy the Arden Shakespeare...
...dangers that face free education to-day were an added incentive. . . . Free-dom of educational opportunity has been one of the priceless assets of American life. ... It has helped to train the people for our kind of government. It has maintained Democracy at the grass roots...