Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gathered from museums, private collections, and the University's own buildings, a vast number of valuable antiques connected with the first two centuries of Harvard's growth are being exhibited in Robinson Hall as a part of the Tercentenary Celebration...
Forerunner of the modern slide-rule, "Napier's Bones," is among the other articles to be seen in Robinson Hall. The "bones" are tiny pieces of wood, one-quarter inch square in cross section and two inches long. The whole set is about the area of a playing card. Each face of the bones is neatly inscribed with multiples of each of the nine digits, and computations are made by sliding the bones until the proper figures are in alignment. The set was owned by Samuel Webber, President of Harvard from...
...land providing just one more obstacle for the struggling colonists to overcome. Genuine coins which are to be seen include three of the "pine tree" variety and four "oak tree." There was a third type minted, a "willow tree" design, but there are none of this pattern in the Robinson display...
...three-fold exhibition in Robinson Hall has proved one of the popular spots to the thousands who have visited "Harvard on View." Hours for visiting the exhibit are on September 19 between 10 o'clock to 5 o'clock or one September 20 from 1 o'clock to 5 o'clock...
...TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just to take him on a personal tour. A Manhattan theatre was said to be clamoring for the dusky speedster's services at $10,000 a week. Hotfoot to a radio telephone trotted Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. "Don't do anything till you see me!" implored the world's greatest tapdancer. When the Queen Mary docked, "Bojangles" took Jesse up to Harlem, lined up a bevy of Lenox Avenue high-yellow girls on a nightclub stage, posed for photographs and hoped that he and Owens...