Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several unusual copies are to be seen in the Widener room. One very old edition, of which there are but three other copies extant at the present time, is the "York Manual." This masterpiece was written entirely by hand in red and black figures, and inserted between the lines are musical notations, which are in many cases the same as are used in hymns sung at churches of the present...
...Sarum Primer" is being shown in two or three different editions. One of these, written by hand in 1475, is colored with red, blue, and black letters, while there are illuminated decorations at intervals throughout the book. Another "Sarum" was printed by the French Antonio Verard in 1504, then illuminated by hand. On the border of every page are four-pictures, some groups of them beautifully colored...
...Harvard Student Budget system was instituted in 1926 by vote of the Student Council. Its purpose was to stop the door to door soliciting of such organizations as the American Red Cross, the Cambridge Council of Boy Scouts and the Salvation Army, and also to provide a systematic way of collecting the necessary funds for the Phillips Brooks House Association and the various activities of the classes...
...Queen. In England a woman once bore a daughter and was later beheaded by the child's father. The woman: prim-mouthed Anne Boleyn. The husband: vain, red-bearded, argumentative Henry VIII. The daughter: Queen Elizabeth...
Mary's death made Elizabeth queen at 25. The yellow-red ringlets of her hair framed a dead-white face accented by dark, steady eyes. Though she "spat and swore like a man . . . suitors sprang up like mushrooms." Elizabeth, it seems, was ''broadminded about her favorites, but snobbish about her suitors." With one favorite, the brown-skinned Leicester, she was intimate in public but denied that she made similar concessions in private. Ben Jonson opined that she was "incapable of man" and Brantome, always physiologically acute, offered a theory ex- plaining that theory. Elizabeth rejected King Philip...