Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, to clinch his hope, he summoned to the White House seven congressional leaders for an extraordinary conference. In the cool of the evening and for the space of an hour President Hoover told them what they must do to unsnarl the legislative tangle at the Capitol. Leader Watson informed the President the Senate would not back down on its debenture plan until the House had voted openly against it. Speaker Longworth said the House did not want to vote openly on the debenture plan. Then the President spoke: "The House must vote"?and vote...
...Windsor there were carriages, footmen in scarlet, outriders on stamping white horses. The Dawes topper gleamed in the sun. The Dawes smile flashed at jolly Britons. Soon King George was holding his first audience with a foreign diplomat in seven months. Queen Mary showed Mrs. Dawes the castle...
...this comes from exceptionally large gifts from loyal friends of Harvard. This impressive amount needs to be considered, however, in connection with another that is equally impressive, which was announced by President Lowell a year ago in June, 1928, Harvard received from the family of William Augustus White, '63, a collection of the early editions of Shakespeare's plays, which were appraised at $435,000. In other words, the money value of the College Library has increased in the past twelve months more than a million dollars...
...these latest additions were first editions of John Milton's writings, but these two were all that Harvard needed out of 38 separate early Milton's which were among the important features in Mr. White's collection. By making the Harvard Milton collection just so much nearer perfection, scholars who need to use these books will find it as much easier to perfect their own work Similarly, three volumes have been added to the collection of John Donne's poems and sermons, which has been one of the features of the Harvard Library ever since the gift of Professor Charles...
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...