Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement for "more and better" tutors, the Harvard Fund alleviates a definite evil. From the ordinary sources of revenue, but little provision is made for an advance in the salary scale of the present instructors, which should necessarily be proportionate to the rising cost of living. If the proper type of college graduate is to be attracted to the teaching profession, a decent minimum standard of existence must be offered. An increase in the number of tutors and section men is also imperative, since the individual student is now the unit of instruction...
This particular copy is 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...
...middle of the 15th Century), and may possibly have done the work. Gutenberg never put his imprint on anything. But certainly in 1454 he printed and dated Pope Nicholas V's letter of indulgence on behalf of the King of Cyprus, the first dated piece of separate-type printing and the forerunner of this Bible...
...otherwise secure. Under the broad definition of poetry the new professorship makes provision for men of ability in the cultural arts of music, painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as in the rhythms of language. Professor Murray of Oxford, an authority on the Greek drama, is of the type which the chair was designed to attract...
...Claremont accumulation of units grows, the benefit of a necessarily broadening and increasing staff will accrue to each college. It thus remains to be seen whether a faculty of university excellence working with scholars living under small college conditions will evolve a completer education than American institutions of either type have so far succeeded in doing...