Word: rare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Morgan '89 and W. A. White '63 have lent a collection of Persian paintings and European manuscripts. Among the other exhibits are a rare French manuscript Bible of the early 14th century lent by Dr. K. G. T. Webster; some beautiful Persian paintings, lent by H. E. Wetzel '11; Japanese print lent by Dr. D. W. Ross '75; and a large collection of Chinese and Japanese pottery, statuary and paintings, lent, in part, by Mrs. Washington B. Thomas, Miss Margaret Thomas and Dr. Ross. The exhibition contains some highly interesting examples of oriental Art, which are worthy of comparison with...
...Colleges, like individuals, have their distinct virtues and defects. The virtues may blind one to the defects, and vice versa, the defects, in some rare instances, may obscure the virtues. The defects of colleges, moreover, may, as with individuals, prove to be what Sir Thomas Browne has well termed the defects of their qualities.' This seems particularly true in attempting to draw comparisons from as unbiased and detached a point of view as possible, between two such different institutions as Princeton and Harvard. In the case of Harvard, the special 'quality' it would seem to possess is that of individualism...
...notable additions have recently been made to the rare collection of the original works of Robert Louis Stevenson which was made by H. E. Widener '07, and presented to the University Library by the Widener family. The new volumes are the collections of the "Vailima Letters" and the "Pacific Letters," acquired from Sir Sidney Colvin, Stevenson's literary friend, by Mr. P. A. B. Widener, of Philadelphia, in order that he might present them to the new library. Of the letters forming the series, twelve were written during the author's Pacific voyages between July, 1888, and October...
...Sanger's "The Vision of His Work" is an interesting example of the tendency to seek poetic subjects in the sights and sounds of a great city. Occasionally the choice of words might be happier, as in the line "The whistles of the harbor craft ring out." Infelicities are rare, however, and there are often very good lines, such...
...America" will show that among the many college men listed there for having done something worth while, extremely few have had plain pass records in college. Most of them have taken their degrees with distinction; many of them are members of Phi Beta Kappa. It is the rare exception when a failure or near-failure in college becomes a success in after life. Some men realize this, but, unfortunately, delude themselves into thinking that they will be the exceptions, when the chances are several hundred to one that their records after colleges will be like their records in college, flat...