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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rare volume, which originally belonged to John Eliot, commonly called "The Apostle of the Indians," has been received by the Harvard Library from James Buell Munn '12, of New York, in honor of President eliot's birthday. The book is a copy of Heylyn's "Cosmographie Containing the Charographie and Historie of the Whole World," second edition, printed in London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD VOLUME GIVEN TO LIBRARY TO HONOR ELIOT | 3/22/1924 | See Source »

There are also several autographed letters and manuseripts, which have never been published, with Voltaire's corrections, some original editions of several works, including Candide, some rare engravings, and the portrait in color engraved by Alix...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOLTAIRE COLLECTION NOW ON DISPLAY IN TREASURE ROOM | 3/18/1924 | See Source »

...West that she has written. Her stories are vivid, decisive tales of plain and hill. They are filled with excellent background and quick characterization. They move rapidly. They are good stories, probably the best of all the western stories. Mrs. Morrow herself, is tall, dark, a person of rare dignity and poise and of no pretentious. For five years she edited The Delineator. She is modest and she is ambitious. Her new novel,* appearing serially now in Everybody's is called The Devonshers and is a combination of mystery, adventure and the great West. She is a careful workman, spends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy Man | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

...centenary of this great event, we have been accorded the opportunity of judging the work afresh. It is an opportunity which does not often occur, for full performances of the Ninth are rare. But on March 4, in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under the leadership of Leopold Stokowski, combined with the Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto braved the terrors of the formidable masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beethoven's Ninth | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

Since the expenses of students in the college and in the business school are not greatly different, this sum must apply as well to the cost of lectures in the college. Even to that rare individual who has calculated the price of each lecture on the basis of tuition fees as fifty cents, four dollars and five cents must come as a shock. An added hour of sleep is certainly worth fifty cents, but at eight times that amount its desirability becomes questionable. And it would seem that once the pecuniary value of lectures and section meetings has become fairly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "COST PLUS" | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

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