Word: rare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...library is given, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 7, 1885. He en- tered College from the Hill School in 1903 and received his A.B. degree with the class of 1907. It was while in College that he developed a marked literary taste, and began the collection of the rare and beautiful books, which in his will he left to Harvard University. On April 15, 1912, together with his father, Mr. George D. Widener, he was lost at sea when the White Star steamship Titanic foundered...
...first floor is to contain the Widener collection and other rare books, the offices of the library, and stacks. On the second floor is the great main read...
There is good sense, as well as generous enthusiasm--a rare combination in musical critics--in Ernest Newman's "After Wagner--What? Most of the short article is occupied with a discussion of certain aspects of Wagner's greatness, such as his never-relaxing grasp, down to the smallest details, of his vast material...
...this year Harvard athletic teams have enjoyed rare success and won three intercollegiate championships. The football team covered itself with glory, the cross-country men won all of their races, and finally the hockey team completed a splendid season by defeating Yale and Princeton. So in two major sports and a branch of another, Harvard teams have not only beaten representatives of Yale, but have established themselves as intercollegiate champions...
...star, perhaps of the first magnitude, has lately appeared in the Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose exquisite art and keen vision of the eternal through the temporal stamp him as a religious genius of rare power. It may be hoped that the appreciation of his poetry in Miss Underhill's new book (The Mystic Way, by Evelyn Underhill) will procure many readers for the cheaper edition of the "Gitanjali...