Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Peabody Museum has just received twelve rare baskets which were made by the Chitematchie Indians in Alabama. Basket making among these Indians had been given up until recently, when Mrs. Doubleday of New York offered prizes for the best baskets made, so that now the art is being preserved. These baskets will soon be put upon exhibition at the museum...
...College Library has received during the past term a number of rare and interesting books...
...includes handsome editions of standard works, and a very complete reference library. One of the most important acquisitions is "The Harvard Book," a large work in two volumes, published by the class of 1874, and containing historical, biographical and descriptive sketches of Harvard, illustrated by views and portraits. This rare book is the gift of R. T. Edes...
...great opportunity which is afforded to members of the University by the fine print collections of the Museum. The Gray and Randall collections together afford materials for a thorough study of engraving from its earliest beginnings and in all its varieties. These collections include a considerable number of rare and costly prints, such as are seldom to be seen elsewhere than in Europe...
...successful college at once trains scholars and makes men. The second of these functions gives the theme of this book, and the theme is treated, not theoretically, but in the light of long experience which a rare sympathy and understanding have made of the highest value. The essays are frank, forceful in their simplicity, full of humor, pointing out vividly the influences which work for the undermining of character or for its ennoblement, and revealing the folly of the curious idea that young men benefit from dabblings in vices. The book will be of much interest to Harvard...