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...more notable editions of "Don Quixote" in original translation owned by the Library. Among these are several facsimiles of first editions published between 1608 and 1616, including one of the 1608 edition on which is based the other 1100 odd editions of "Don Quixote". There is one rare copy, containing illustrations from curious copper plates by John Philips a nephew of John Milton. There is also a copy of the first English translation by Thomas Shelton, which belonged to James Russell Lowell '38, and later to Charles Eliot Norton '46. The rest of the exhibit is made up of German...
...makes use of an agent called a "catalyst," which is a substance that by its mere presence causes the union of two other elements. Efficient catalysts, or as Dr. E. E. Slosson calls them, the "good mixers" of chemical society, are expensive. Haber used uranium, platinum or some other rare and finely divided metal. When the nitrogen and hydrogen, after being elaborately purified, mixed in proper proportions, compressed, and heated to 1,300 degrees F., are passed over the uranium, the resulting gas contains from 4% to 8% of ammonia, which can be condensed to a liquid, used in refrigeration...
...retains a sense of proportion strong enough to keep his immediate ideals within reasonable limits. In the modern type of statesmen, and in fact in any type past or present, this quality of being able to see beyond the boundaries and prejudices of one particular nation is rare indeed. When combined with a perception of present limitations, its occurrence is more unusual still...
...expression". After all, this reflection on one's vocabulary is only a sly shot at the college author fair target but there are certainly occasions, which Dr. Fitch neglects, on which anything but solid, sturdy. Anglo-Saxon profanity would be inappropriate and since these occasions are by no means rare in college days, proficiency in the art should be a point of pride. It is a poor compliment to the college man that his best awarding should be likened to the rude, uneducated and really embryonic curses of the pirate...
...nasty problem, it is also the salvation of Gulian. His father is too old, so he must take charge of the situation. With rare skill he keeps the disgrace from coming into the open. He frees Drusilla from Perry, leaves her disengaged for Vannya. And he himself marries Lael...