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Soon the Rinehart finances were in good shape; the Rineharts could afford to go abroad. Mrs. Rinehart could even afford such extravagances as buying "a sixteenth of a gold mine which never developed." When the War came she was sent abroad by the Literary Digest. She met notables: Foch, Queen Mary of England, King Albert of the Belgians. She went into the trenches, into No-Man's Land. She came back and wrote it up guardedly. When the U. S. went in, Dr. Rinehart and the two eldest boys enlisted; Mrs. Rinehart finally managed to be sent over...
...complete the collections of certain authors that are already exceptionally well represented in the Library,--for example,--Donne (including a valuable manuscript), Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, and Gray. Another subject that these gifts have helped us to build up is French literature, especially poetry and drama, of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,--a class in which the Library is still lamentably weak. In an entirely different field, there was bought a collection of nearly 700 volumes and pamphlets, including files of several important periodicals, illustrating the history of free thought in England and America in the nineteenth century...
...books in fine arts; Professor James R. Jewett '82, for Arabic literature; Professor Fred N. Robinson '90, for Celtic books; Augustin H. Parker '97, for original drawings by Walter Crane; and another graduate, who prefers to hide in modest anonymity, almost countless treasures in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all in memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard...
When the Junior concentrating in History and Literature hands in his last blue-book for the mid-year period, he cannot utter the proverbial sigh and turn to the lighter things of life, since in less than three weeks another more important examination awaits him. On February sixteenth the department of History and Literature has scheduled a divisional on the Bible and Shakespeare...
...chief interest to the University at the present moment are the tapestry and paintings, which are now on exhibit at the Museum. The tapestry, which exemplifies a type of weaving and design not previously exhibited in the permanent collection here, probably was worked in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. It is of Flemish origin...