Word: rare
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...give the third of his series of lectures on the history of classical studies, this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in Harvard 1. His subject will be "The French Period Sixteenth Century." Professor Morgan will discuss the principal scholars of the time and their work, and will show some rare books of the period, belonging to the Harvard Library...
...with her supposed husband has seldom been equalled. Even more striking was the depth and purity of her voice, which, without apparent effort, easily reached the entire audience. In her lines, as in Mr. Greet's, the rhythm of the words was retained without undue prominence of metre,--a rare and delightful medium. Specially good during the entire play was the interpretation of meaning by accent and gesture. Several lines, ordinarily rather vague, were given life and significance by the thoughtful attention to detail which marked every scene...
...editorials are well written and do not force the laugh too much. The drawings--particularly the centrepage--are executed with exceptional ability and are appropriate to the subjects; and the quibs and longer pieces of satire possess a sort of spontaneity that has become of late very rare. The "Guide to Courses," "Baedeker's Harvard" and "Chem. 3," although none of them are essentially new, nevertheless are more than justified by the originality of their treatment. The last named particularly is pre-eminently amusing and provokes a laugh without begging it. Two rather long poems "Retribution" and "The Seven...
...Peabody Museum has recently received two rare boxes of birch bark, the gifts of Mrs. E. J. McNeil and Miss N. M. Betteley of Cambridge. The boxes are a hundred years old, and were made by Indians. They are ornamented with split spruce and with porcupine quills worked in colors. The Museum now owns five such boxes, and only one other museum in the country has any specimens of this rare Indian workmanship...
...brary of hat father, the late Brinton Coxe, and contains 3225 volumes and 92 pamphlets. There are many books of great value in this collection, containing, s it does, nearly a complete set of the decisions of the Rota Roma in about 60 volumes, a number of rare volumes of early English and American statute law, and old editions of Blackstone's "Commentaries" and early laws of the colonies...