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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the first editions of Hardy's novels and poems is a copy of "Wessex Tales", with a letter of presentation to Robert Browning dated May, 1888. A number of rare photographs of the writer completes the collection...
This collection is invaluable to the student of prints, for it contains many unpublished reproductions of prints which are either unique or excessively rare and very widely scattered, and makes possible a serious study of early German engraving. It is particularly enlightening in showing the close relationship between engraving and other forms of art and the use made by artists in other media of designs used by engravers...
...requires that U. S. munitions contracts, "except in rare cases," shall be let to the lowest bidders. The bidders include the U. S. arsenals, which naturally can underbid private concerns. Private munitions-making for the U. S. tends to be not only profitless but costly. Members of the Army Ordnance Associations- civilian industries organized under reserve officers and the Assistant Secretary of War-spend large sums keeping up-to-date their factory plans and personnel for munitions-making. It would be not only just but wise for the U. S. to give "educational" orders to such industries. During...
...employers some months before graduation, significant advances were made. The Engineering School has gone farther. The man who takes a position now with an employer who, of course, is working for has own interests, has not burned his bridges behind him. He has a definite contact, a circumstance so rare before, with a responsible, disinterested guide who is well oriented by the requisite ten years, of experience in the same field. This friend can save him from an unwise choice even after it has been made. The new graduate is not abandoned if the square peg of his aspirations should...
...concert auspiciously with their well concerted accents and efforts of shading. The Vocal Club sang with continuous enthusiasm football songs and some of the old college songs in which the barber shop chords and bibulous whimsicalities dear to the old "grad" were executed with a finish which was rare in the good old days...