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When the doors of Burlington House open there will be on view 100 carpets, more than 1,000 textiles, 1,500 paintings & drawings, hundreds of the finest extant Persian book covers, more than 1,000 pieces of faïence, a priceless collection of illuminated manuscripts, bronzes from Achaemenian and Sassanian times, sculpture, architectural and ornamental detail, friezes, ceramics, enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed...
...resented that so much money should be spent on anyone or anything but himself. I merely turned it over to the Harvard police to clear myself of any responsibility in the matter. I do not think that anyone in their right mind could resent the legitimate purchase of a priceless work of art by a great university whose only object in acquiring it was its preservation as part of our artistic heritage from the past...
...would seem that in the legislative circles of Boston, wonders never cease. Among the more amusing of the priceless relics which come to light from time to time, is the city ordinance which forbids the shining of shoes (professionally) after 11 A. M. on Sundays...
...delivers a set speech. He used it upon the Senate pages at their Christmas dinner. Last fortnight he wrote it out for publication in the Yale News. Excerpts: "Never have opportunities so crowded themselves upon youth. . . . Youth is at a high premium; its courage and zest is its priceless asset. . . . National prosperity rests upon the quality of leadership developed and sponsored in youth-the leaders of tomorrow...
...position in the contemporary literary world. Professor Woodberry first saw the Notebook during his Senior year at Harvard, when the atmosphere of the College was not very favorable to Shelley, and in his introductory paragraphs he writes of the thrill he received when he was permitted to handle the priceless poetical relic...