Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...current number of the Advocate is unusually varied in matter, but the variety is unfortunately not indicative of excellence. The story, "A Village Iconoclast," by F. E. Greene '07, can claim as its only merit the sympathetic character drawing of the spinsters. This, however, is a quality rare in undergraduate writing, and very pleasant to find. The complete lack of it in "The Two Shippers" by H. V. Morgan '10, combined with an impossible plot, puts the story in the class of the unintentional burlesque. One is glad that the two college types suggested in the number are at least...
There have recently been added to the Warren House Library a number of German classics from the private library of Charles Eliot Norton '46, among them 30 volumes on the Niebelungen Lied, and rare copies of the first editions of Goethe's Iphigenie Auf Tauris, 1790, and Schiller's Wallenstein, 1800. Ten volumes on works and criticisms of Shakspere have been received from F. E. Chase; and J. H. Clark '57 has added 65 volumes of contemporary Spanish and Italian works and 19 volumes of French literature to the Lowell Memorial collection. A number of books donated...
This week an interesting public exhibition is being held at the Cambridge Public Library of rare and beautiful editions of the poet's works, together with other memorabilia connected with his name, to which the University Library, Professor Norton, and other collectors have contributed...
Another article of interest is Mr. Samuel Henshaw's illustrated account of the Okayi, a rare specimen just acquired by the Agassiz Museum of an African animal akin to the giraffe. A criticism, by S. T. M., of the exhibition of the Camera Club addresses itself particularly to amateur photographers. General entertainment is provided in Mr. Stoddard's diary of a youthful would-be dilettante...
...Eliot, Coloner T. W. Higginson '41 and Professor C. E. Norton '46 will also make addresses. A special chorus from the public schools will sing the cantata, "The Village Blacksmith." During the week of the anniversary an interesting public exhibition will be held, at the Cambridge Public Library, of rare and beautiful editions of the poet's works, together with other memorabilia connected with his name, to which the University Library, Professor Norton, and other collectors will contribute. On the afternoon of the anniversary there will be a special meeting, to be called "The Children's Hour," for the pupils...