Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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English literature will always be the field of first importance in judging the comparative importance of our University Libraries, and it is in this subject that Harvard has forged ahead, most impressively during the past year Chiefly through the generosity of Mr. William A White's children and other members of his family, the Library has added 268 titles from his remarkable collection of contemporary Elizabethan literature. These include his exception ally full series of first editions of BenJonson's plays, which heretofore has been one of the noticeable weak spots in the library. For nearly all the other dramatists...
...such noteworthy presses as the Merrymount, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Daniel, and Dun Emer, have been added as funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor Sachs gave his collection of the work of Bruce Rogers, that Typography was recognized as a distinct subject for which the library ought to provide a place. Mr. Hofer's gift now makes it certain that the Harvard collection of finely printed books will be easily equal to that of any other institution. The recognition of Printing as a fine art is closely connected with book illustration...
...Senate last week experimented with confirming presidential nominations to the sub-Cabinet in open executive session. The subject of the experiment was Joseph Potter Cotton appointed Undersecretary of State by President Hoover. The experiment was not successful...
...Italian State the Church is not sovereign or even free. It is not sovereign because that would be a contradiction. It is not even free because its institutions and its men are subject to the general laws of the country. . . . The State is sovereign in the Italian kingdom, the Catholic Church holds certain loyally and voluntarily recognized privileges, and all other religions are freely admitted...
...always the Supreme Pontiff who intervenes and negotiates in the fullness of the sovereignty of the Catholic Church, which he does not represent but personifies by direct Divine mandate. It is not, therefore, the Catholic organization in Italy which would be subject to the sovereignty of the State but the Pontiff himself, the supreme authority of the Church. ... If there were the least animosity and bitterness in our soul we would say that these not infrequent expressions of no renunciation, of no concession from the State to the Church offend...