Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quarto editions of Shakespeare are extremely rare; certain of them exist in unique copies only, while the total number of known copies of any single volume in no case exceeds 40. Hitherto the Harvard Library has owned only three of them. Apart from their scarcity, these editions derive their chief value from the fact that they are contemporary with the author himself, while the famous First Folio was published after his death. The text of the Quartos is not always accurate, but it contains the most curious and suggestive differences from the Folio texts and is of great value...
...worth of a library is determined is that of number of volumes, and in comparing mere numbers it is often lost sight of that size is but one of a library's requirements. No less important is the proper proportioning of the collection and the inclusion of old and rare works thereby made accessible to scholars. Widener Library has held for some years the title of the foremost college library and the fifth greatest in the world. As in inevitable in an restitution most of whose growth has taken place within a comparatively few years, omissions occurred and the gift...
...because of the State boss's weakness or through actual differences in individuals' opinions. But for the most part the chairman of each delegation just stands up when his State's turn comes and announces or reiterates, "Transylvania-umpteen votes for Hooridge." Unless spectators have rare good seats, they hear little but the candidate's name, because all the delegates go on conversing, arguing or registering enthusiasm all over the pandemoniac convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover it, not through...
...library of the station contains 8,298 bound volumes and 16,445 pamphlets dealing chiefly with aerography, and some rare copies of early publications in meteorology. A secondary station, at the base of the hill, is supplied, with self-registering instruments, the records of which are used to advantage in studies of the circulation of the lower...
...traverse the air. The importance of knowing more about that medium is apparent. "The air's the thing and before long men who have not had instruction in aerography, will feel that their college training was deficient; and such limitation of their knowledge will prove a handicap. There is rare opportunity for some friend of Harvard to found a Chair of Aerography...