Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning Professor Rollins. Professor Rollins is a typical Harvard man. He is a brilliant scholar, and has produced several books in which he has shown in addition to his rare scholarship, an unusual taste and appreciation for fine literature. He is a gentleman, a quality of which few of us boast nowadays. And he is an excellent teacher for those who have the ability and desire to learn...
...college education. No one. however, has attempted to calculate the value of college to men already wealthy, partly for lack of statistics, partly because very few affluent students have made their own fortunes. Harvard is to harbor for several years, beginning this fall, one of the latter rare aves...
Among the many rare and interesting collections contained in the Widener Library is one of theatrical memorabilia, which is not only the rarest but the largest of its king in the world...
...suit the manager's demand, and of these several reprints have been made. All the steps in the changing of this bill are shown in the collection. Two copies of the playbills distributed in the theatre the night of the assassination are in the collection, and are exceedingly rare...
...Hassan" is an oriental play which was produced for the first time in London in 1924 with great success. The scene is laid in the Bagdad of the fifteenth century. Adventure, intrigue, and romance are woven into a story which combines rare wit and humor with high emotional power. In a setting of color and life is placed Haroun at Raschid, the famous Caliph, and Hassan, a poor confectioner...