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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...performance as a whole was well worth the effort, and the University ought to take full advantage of the rare opportunity of seeing a play of the Restoration performed with so much vigor and understanding...
...only to the foreigners but also to the American missions and institutions abroad. He is given the opportunity to see at first hand, and to understand the work Americans are doing in the Orient. In view of the rapid advancement and growth of the East, it is a rare chance to study closely the economic and political conditions of Japan and China, as well as of our own possessions. There is an additional attraction offered to medical students. In addition to regular teaching experience, very valuable training may be received in the various hospitals over which Americans have control...
...conclusion Professor Perry observed the perfect types of new French scholarship which have added infinite grace, charm, and beauty of expression to modern speech. In this group are Croiset, Canson, Le Franc, Baldensperger, and Legouis. "There is something inexplicable in the gift of speech," he said, "something as rare as the gift of poetry. And the art of teaching, like that of speaking, is more or less a mystery which requires deep analysis,--a sort of trade which we are all endeavoring to follow...
...Several rare first editions of Dryden's works from the Pearson Sale in London: "Astera Redux," 1660; "MacFlecknot," 1682; "Alexander's Feast," 1697; "Three Poems upon the Death of Oliver, Lord Protector of England," by Edmund Waller, John Dryden and Mr. Sprat and "Lachrymal Musarum," 1650; were recently presented to the University by A. McF. Davis '54, F. C. Halsey '68, and G. C. Beals '98. These books almost complete the Library's collection of first editions of Dryden. A first edition of John Donne: "The First Anniverserie," and "The Second Anniverserie," 1612, were purchased by the Library with...
...special exhibition of those works of art loaned to the Fogg Museum by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan '89, will close this evening at 5 o'clock. The collection consists of a number of Persian paintings and illuminated European manuscripts, some of them extremely rare...