Word: rare
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...George R. Williams recently purchased the private law library of the late Nathaniel Moak and presented it to Cornell University as a memorial to Judge Boardman. This library, containing many rare and costly documents, cost over $100,000, and with the library Cornell already has, makes the finest law library in the country. Cornell was fortunate in securing it, as both Harvard and Leland Stanford Universities were trying to purchase it. The Moak collection contains about 13,000 volumes and its original cost was something over $100,000. Mr. Moak spent thirty years in gathering it and took great pains...
...hear a man who has travelled and lived in the Orient, is a rare opportunity in Cambridge; to hear one who has spent two winters there digging for remains of one of the oldest civilizations is rarer still. We may tonight expect from Dr. Peters an account of his heroic and successful struggle against many odds, and of the valuable discoveries which he made in the temple of Bel at Niffer. His success in raising a large sum of money for the expedition, in overcoming diplomatic and other difficulties, and in securing for America a large portion of the clay...
...tracing the history of trial by jury and the history of the law of evidence, and is bringing to light many things that have escaped the eye of earlier explorers. He shares with his colleague, Mr. J. B. Ames, a mastery of the Year Books which must be very rare even on the American side of the Atlantic, The Harvard Law Review is rapidly making itself an absolutely indispensable member of the library of every one who has any care for the history of the common...
...competent athletic instructors in schools, hospitals, the army, the navy, etc. Heretofore such instructing has been done mostly by men who are merely athletes. The course proposes to add brains to muscle, and make these athletes competent medical men or athletic subjects. Men with these qualifications are extremely rare, and are now commanding salaries of from two to five thousand dollars. It is also proposed to use the students of this course as instructors of small sections of men in the gymnasium, and to assist and relieve the captains of the various crews. Such a plan must be of great...
...music will be rendered on the clavichord, harpichord, and other old instruments, which will be played by Mr. Arthur Friedheim. The lecture has been given at Yale, and is given here largely through the influence of Prof. J. K. Paine. Mr. Steinert's instruments, among which are some very rare and valuable ones, are to be taken to Vienna soon, and this will be the best opportunity for the students to see them. No tickets are necessary for admission to the lecture, and every student should make it a point...