Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conscientious Vagabond has a many-sided nature and is an earnest devotee of art, literature or science indiscriminately. It is rare, however, that simultaneous opportunities are offered to satisfy such divers appetites. It is, therefore, with keen anticipation that the Vagabond plans pilgrimages to Widener, Fogg and Robinson to study the varied exhibitions that are in progress. The exhibition at Widener of early editions of Newton's famous treatises has been open for several days, but it is of undiminished interest for the scientific dilettante. Rare speciments of Dante's work are no less attractive to the dabbler in literature...
...Committee of the John Barnard Associates, which will administer the exhibition of rare books owned by students to be shown in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library consists of three men. F. V. Field '27, Massachusetts 11, chairman, A. A. Houghton '28, Claverly '26, and J. S. Jennison '30, Standish E 41, will make up this committee, and any student wishing to exhibit some part of his library or rare books should communicate with one of these men as soon as possible so that they will be able to make out a list of the possible books and select...
From April 1 to the Spring vacation the Widener Treasure Room will be devoted to an exhibit of rare books owned by undergraduates. This exhibit is being administered by the John Barnard Associates, an organization formed last month in memory of John Barnard, 1700. When in the eighteenth century the college library burned down, this public spirited clergyman who was a resident of Marblehead contributed his entire collection of books to start the new library...
...exhibit is open to all undergraduates, and students willing to have their rare books or pieces of special printing exhibited should communicate with anyone on the committee. This should be done as early as possible so that a list can be made of the possible volumes and select the ones which will be shown...
...with their bullets; how Daniel Boone "barked" squirrels, hitting the limb under their chins to stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats in his bedroom with Audubon's rare violin, bears witness to backwoods eccentricity and hospitality. Floods, prairies, a great pine swamp, the canebrakes of the Ohio, midwinter moose "yards" in Canada, squatters on the Mississippi, the death of a pirate on the Gulf of Mexico- these and scores of other matters the robust wanderer found time...