Word: script
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with the Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts at the Fogg Art Museum, Edward Kennard Rand '94, Professor of Latin and Curator of Manuscripts at the University, will give a talk on "Mediaeval Script" in the Lecture Room of the Museum on Thursday, April 7, at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides and will be open to the public at large. Professor Rand is a trustee of the American Academy at Rome and is the author of numerous articles on classical and mediaeval subjects...
...connection with the exhibition there will be at the Fogg Museum two conferences:--one on Thursday, March 31, at 4.30, by Professor Charies R. Morey of Princeton University, on Medieval Illumination; and one on Thursday, April 7, at 4.30, by Professor Edward K. Rand of Harvard University, on Medieval Script...
Added to these are the illiterate aliens who are constantly growing more numerous. Last year we had two and a half million foreigners who could not read a word, even in their own language; there are many others who are classed as illiterate because their native script or letters are different from ours and who therefore find the English language unintelligible. When we consider the half-illiterates, those who are scarcely able to sign their name or decipher words--and our unschooled negro and white population, we have the alarming total of more than 25 million, or one quarter...
...Excelsior" written at three o'clock in the morning on the back of a letter from Wendell Phillips. In another case are parts of the original manuscript of "The Uncommerical Traveller" in Dickens' unreadable scrawl, and of the "Roundabout Papers" written by Thackeray in a hand that resembles printed script...