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...called the Melk after its former owner, the Austrian Benedictine monastery in Melk. Its great value comes from its being one of the 45 known remaining copies of the first complete book to be printed from movable type. In 1455, 300 sheets were run off and bound. The text runs in two columns, 42 lines to the page, except for the first nine pages, which in the first edition have only 40 lines of text. Initials and decorations appear in colored inks. The 1282 pages, in two volumes bound in brown calf, each measure...
Robert Benchley in the current "Harper's" never suspected he was to be used as a text for a sermon. Yet his article can well be thus employed. He suggests the necessity for a certain rapport between audience and actor too often completely lacking. Could he not suggest the necessity of such a rapport between lecturer and student...
...current issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" contains an editorial, "Mobilized Knowledge", in which the following paragraph from Dr. Josiah H. Penniman, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, is used for a text:--"A university today is a glorified factory. It is a mammoth corporation, dealing not in a single product or group of products, but in the principles and products of all knowledge. It has added to its traditional strength because it has learned how to organize knowledge in such fashion that the fundamentals of the several fields can be brought to bear upon a given situation in almost...
...What is Russia's Part in Modern Music" is to be the text of a lecture this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Mr. Alfred Swan has come from New York to give the lecture with his own pianoforte illustrations. Mr. Swan is a recognized authority on the impressionism of the modern French school and the tremendous influence it has had on recent Russian music
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