Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several feet wide, of course. Ingenuity has replaced generosity and the Victor innovation consists in a magazine or loading carriage of twelve records, attached to the automatic Orthophonic machine, run by electric motor. A mechanical "hand" puts on one record after another, up to a dozen. After the twelfth record, the machine automatically stops. The dancers, or listeners-to-sermons, or opera lovers, or synthetic concertgoers, can then, by a simple motion, turn the record magazine about and play the twelve "other sides." The whole score of a musical comedy will thus be made available to the corridors...
...written by men on the Harvard faculty, and many others are the books of Harvard graduates. Both C. H. Haskins, A.M. '08, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and H. E. Rollins, A.M. '16, professor of English have two books each on the list. "The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century" is the title of one of Haskins' volumes on Mediaeval history. His other work is a second edition of his "Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science." Rollins edits the "The Pack of Autolycus", a collection of 17th century ballads by Anthony Wood, and A Paradise of Dainty Devices...
...somewhat altered the story to do so. For example, the love drink is not one mentioned; Tristram and Isolt are consumed by a passion which it needs no magical agency to explain. And in other matters Mr. Robinson has altered his material for his own purposes. In the twelfth century version Isolt was "Isolt la Blonde"; in Malory, she was "La Belle Isond"; Mr. Robinson's Isolt has "night black hair" and "dark splendor" in her eyes. She is thus described, one imagines, to distinguish her from that other Isolt, Isolt of the white hands, for whom Tristram...
Another feature of the current exhibition is two Greek manuscripts. One of these, consisting of six leaves of uncial letters, is among the oldest works in the library, probably dating back to the ninth or tenth century. The other is of the twelfth century. Both were the gifts of Edward Everett...
...principle of this series of meetings, the remaining four of which will be held on April fourteenth, twenty-eight, and May twelfth and twenty-sixth, is to let Freshmen, who are naturally rather isolated from most of the undergraduate activities, get into closer touch with the rest of the college. It has been found that a great many first year men have avoided entering certain activities merely because they did not know what the competition entailed and these meetings ought to clear any doubts on such matters...