Word: rarer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Widener Memorial Library. Here are located the Treasure Room, where the rarest collections belonging to the University are on exhibition. On the mezzanine floor is found the Memorial Room, where the Harry Elkins Widener Collection is kept; book lovers may, upon application to the attendant, inspect the rarer volumes. Outside the Memorial Room are tablets holding the pictures of all the members of the University who lost their lives in the Great War. The Farnsworth Room, situated to the right of the main entrance, is a memorial room containing a splendid collection of standard authors. This room is intended only...
...rare for a research worker of the first rank to be also a real teacher of his subject. It is even rarer for such a man to prove that he is not a mere cultured ornament of a practical world but a strong support in time of need. Professor Sabine was all three. Science remembers him for his studies in acoustics. The men of the University hold him dear for those hours in Jefferson when notes and books were forgotten as "sound ghosts" and electric discharges were made real by a man who had explored all their wonders...
...effect. If we do it ourselves it will add, directly and indirectly, more men to the training unit than any other possible action, and its example will be felt throughout the country. It is easy enough to call others to make sacrifiees for their duty--it is simpler, but rarer, to make the sacrifices oneself...
...others dazed-- A soul that travelled over paths unworn, And searched the hidden deeps and knew no bourne, A soul that yet its glance in wonder raised, Like children at a miracle amazed, And plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never let the flame grow dim That he has lit, a beacon on our way. MARGARETE MUENSTERBERG. The Nation...
...death of William E. Quinn, the Harvard track team has lost a trainer endowed with unusual personal athletic attainment and with the still rarer power of developing the abilities of others. Of his loyalty and devotion to Harvard, pathetic proof was given to those who watched the cheery grit with which he hobbled to the field even after he was already suffering severely from the disease which finally caused his death. In him, Harvard has lost a notable trainer and a faithful friend...