Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never be assembled in a single spot even if a library could be built large enough to contain them. In the official report made by Professor Coolidge, Widener Library's collection is described as "better rounded out than almost any of the great European libraries," although it contains fewer rare books than many others, and only a limited number in many special fields. Its selection, however, is calculated to satisfy the varied wants of a university such as Harvard...
Both views are plausible. While we may be grateful that our art is not at the tender mercies of our fickle government, we must envy the French spirit which makes possible its official recognition and encouragement on an impartial basis. Such honors to foreigners are rare; that Dr. Davison, and through him the Glee Club, has been so distinguished, is a cause for much satisfaction...
...which are valuable." This would leave one to think that one course was as productive of good as another. This is rather deceptive. Is, say a three-day concentration period, able to compare in value with a four month stick-to-it period? Or is concentration a desirable so rare that a little of it will off-set a lot of the baser stuff of persistent application? The foreshortening of an obligation of four months to a comparatively few hours is only too likely to foster carelessness and a procrastinating habit of mind that will have little opportunity in later...
...spectacle of a virtuoso conducting a symphony orchestra in one of his own compositions is rare enough in itself to cause comment, but when the conductor-composer is master violinist, 'cellist, pianist, and organist, of international reputation as well, the performance is more than unusual. The appearance of M. Georges Enesco last week with the Boston Symphony Orchestra called attention to a versatility which is almost five centuries out of place...
Interesting loans from Dr. D. W. Ross '75 which have been placed in the cases in the Ross corridor are a Chinese bowl of rare delicacy and beauty, dating from the Lung period; four Persian tiles and two fragments of Persian pottery; four pieces of Chinese carved agate dating probably from the XVIII century; and a Chinese sceptre probably of jade, and dating also from the XVIII century...