Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of book exhibits which begins in Widener Library today affords an opportunity for those few souls who are genuinely interested in rare volumes and ancient editions. If the books were to be eased in glass and had to be viewed from a respectful distance they would excite no more curiosity than the far famed glass flowers that is, among the undergraduates. People do come from Carson City and Topeka and all sorts of places for a glimpse of these renowned bits of vegetation, but what student has ever seen them unless, perhaps, he lost his way in the Museum...
None of which, of course, has anything to do with the exhibits in Widener. It would be somewhat difficult to imagine one's self as Plato's "Republic", although not altogether imposible to acquire the philosophic poise of Plato himself. But for those rare spirits who revel in investigating anything old and original, today's collection will furnish a wild, almost immorally hilarious orgy...
...earliest picture of Harvard College known, one of the first six sowing machines ever made, an extremely rare engraving of the college buildings which was owned by Paul Revere;--these are a few of the items which were placed in the exhibition cases of the Treasure Room of the Library yesterday...
...Robert Seymour drawing, dated 1836, picturing one of the earliest balloons; several children's books containing rare samples of the work of Caldecott, the famous English illustrator, and an eighteenth century "Twelfth Night," illustrated by George Cruikshank, are among the most interesting features of the exhibition...
...Mykytiak, marched to a stream on the outskirts of the city and celebrated the baptism of Christ, performed 1,900 years ago by John the Baptist in River Jordan. A cross of ice was cut from the stream and candles placed about it. This ceremony, indigeous to Europe, is rare in America...