Word: rare
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last year, Mrs. Atkinson presented the Union with her son's valuable library of old French books, including rare editions of Condillac and Chateaubriand...
...University Library has recently acquired a collection of rare Dutch pamphlets written by Sir George Downing, M.A., 1642. They relate to the Anglo-Dutch wars of 1663-67 and 1672-74, by which the colony of New Netherlands was wrested from the Dutch and renamed New York. Downing was the second student to graduate from Harvard and became Scoutmaster-general under Cromwell and later minister to Holland. He was knighted by Charles II for effecting the arrest of three of the regicide judges of Charles I. Later he instigated the measures which resulted in making New York English territory...
...more important additions to the Gray collection are thirteen prints of Turner's Liber Studiorum in the etched state and two plates in the same series in the mezzotint state. The Liber series now contains many choice impressions in mezzotint and forty-one rare etchings...
...valuable collections from Mr. L. H. Farlow of Cambridge. One of these consists of baskets made by the Indians of California and Nevada early in the last century. Owing to the fact that the baskets now made are few in number and of poor quality, the old baskets are rare and costly. The other collection, comprising articles from the Indians of the Northwest Coast, and the Esquimaux of Alaska, includes the complete dress of a Wichita squaw, wooden dishes, models of sleds, household utensils, tools and bags...
...other hand, the game showed that the Harvard team has rare offensive strength. A swifter attack than that shown through much of the game has seldom been attained by a Harvard eleven. It must be admitted, however, that the failure to grasp opportunities to score is so far from exceptional that evidence of this defect has come to seem almost meritable in each and every game; the game with Pennsylvania was no exception to this generality...