Word: rare
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human. One of the most wholesome things that an American can do is to read a good bit of Washington's correspondence during the Revolutionary War. Then he can appreciate the constancy and grandeur...
...addition to the College Library, on the second floor, and adjoining the general reading-room, is a large room which will be known as the Treasure Room. Here will eventually be collected all the rare books and many of the manuscripts of the Library,--everything which, on account of its rarity or value, has to be kept under lock and key and ought to be used under proper supervision. The room not yet being occupied for this purpose, there will be exhibited here for the next three weeks, a collection of memories of John Harvard and his contemporaries. This collection...
...Museum has also received as the gift of Mr. L. H. Farlow an excellent collection of 12 rare Chilchotin baskets from an Athabascan tribe in British Columbia...
...taken by Dr. Henderson of original manuscripts, engravings, and caricatures in the museums and archives of Paris, from paintings in the palace of Versailles, and from original documents in his possession. The material for illustration, some of which has been drawn from a private collection in Boston, is very rare, and has been collected at great expense...
...excites a free discussion of the merits of the various candidates; and at which everyone shows his freedom from all previous affiliations, and casts his ballot for the man who seems to him best fitted to fill the office for which he has been nominated. Unfortunately, ideal elections are rare, but the practical obstacles are by no means insurmountable, and can be overcome gradually, if not at once...