Word: rare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rare (one of the earliest) concordance to the Bible by Estienne...
...list of accessions to the library is unusually extensive and contains many interesting and valuable entries. Among these are : A very rare Bible in Latin (1528), being the first edition of the whole Bible divided into verses by Arabic numerals...
...feel called upon to more than mention the numerous lectures and readings which are regularly posted in the weekly calendars, no to expatiate upon the rare opportunities afforded the laziest to receive knowledge without any personal outlay except an hour's attention. But we cannot suppress our astonishment at the meagre audiences which gather to hear the greater part of these readings. Every man who in the future will say he spent four years at college, could reasonably be called upon for some acquaintance, however superficial, with the masterpieces of Greek and Latin literature, and comparatively few of us would...
...spring running meeting of the Myopia Club, which began yesterday at Mystic Park, proved to be a very successful affair, and afforded a day of rare and exciting sport...
...country. The New York Herald, World, and Tribune, the Chicago Inter-Ocean and Tribune, the Philadelphia News, are but a few of the many papers which have had articles from Harvard press, Six, at least of the Boston papers have regular reporters at Harvard, and it is a rare thing to pick up a Sunday paper which has no Harvard notes in it. The pay for this sort of work varies according to the ability and good fortune of the writer. The New York and Chicago dailies pay from $10 to $15 a column...