Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasure Room in the Memorial Library has once more been reopened to those interested in rarities historical and literary. Among the many valuable documents on display, there may be found the Charter granted to Harvard College by the General Court of the Colony and signed by Governor Thomas Dudley on May 30, 1650. The only remaining volume from the library of John Harvard, together with three Bibles of Henry Dunster's, first President of the College, one of which contains the records of the Dunster family, completes this interesting collection of Harvardiana...
...those whose special interest is first editions, the Treasure Room contains the first "Paradise Lost" of Milton and the signature of Milton himself in a book "belonging to a Swiss gentleman...
...artisan is familiar enough in every school, and, alas, in every college. He is the tortoise of the class, who struggles wearily on before the proddings of his parents and his schoolmasters. In the discreet fastness of the faculty room, his masters will tell you that he is a complete moron. His mother, on the other hand, will assure you that he is really quite brilliant, only he is so shy and sensitive that his masters never know it, for he becomes tongue-tied in class and paralyzed in examinations. Often enough, both are wrong...
...first of the Harvard Union's Sunday evening entertainments will be held tomorrow at 7.15 o'clock in the Union living room. All members of the University are invited to attend this initial Sunday evening entertainment. The occasion is marked by the fact that after this date the Union will be open for members only. Roy Lamson '29 and the Harvardians, fresh from a successful season in Scandinavia will provide musical entertainment with a "Russian Phantasy" followed by a rendering of "I'm in Love With You", and ending with the ever-present "Tiger Rag". S. W. Burbank '30, xylophonist...
...Library Committee, headed by W. McK. Dunn '30, conducts the textbooks loan library, which consists of ethical, religious, and social works, and supplies the reading room of the House with current periodicals...