Word: proof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After two or three years of controversy, communications, and editorials, the true opinion of undergraduates concerning the Harvard Union will be expressed, it is hoped, in the vote cast, today and tomorrow. The result of this vote should be a final and conclusive proof to the Corporation that the College recognizes the great worth and unquestioned utility of the Union...
...proof sheets of "Underwoods" Stevenson sent to Miss Adelaide Boodle, a woman whom he had always termed throughout his life "game-keeper," for the reason that she lived on his country estate at Bournemouth and acted as its care-taker...
...acquisitions are the gift of Mrs. Hamilton Rice (Mrs. Widener), of Philadelphia, and the fourth was donated to the University by the wife of the late Frederick Guion Ireland '68, of New York. They number a copy of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with a rhymed inscription; the corrected proof sheets of "Underwoods"; one of ten printed copies of "The Beach of Falesa"; and a letter penned to Mr. Ireland by Robert Louis Stevenson himself...
...first of the sheets of proof, which are unbound and at Widener are kept in a packet, he wrote, "Adelaide Boodle, these sheets with the kindest remembrances from Robert Louis Stevenson." Much is in the proofs that does not appear in the published volume. Ten lines of one poem were later dropped bodily for some personal reason of the author. There are two corrections of typographical errors and a number of mis-spelled words that had to be rectified...
...This organization assured, during the period of eleven days' fighting from the eighth to the nineteenth of March, with absolute disregard of danger, the transportation of wounded in a zone particularly swept by enemy artillery. Moreover, all its personnel exhibited proof of remarkable devotion and endurance in maintaining throughout nineteen hours daily a maximum service from this unit...