Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after Commencement, 1913, will be opened to the public on Wednesday, February 4. In addition to the regular collections there is to be a special loan exhibition, from February 4 to 17, of Persian and European illuminated manuscripts, Ient by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan '89; Mr. W. A. White '63; and others. At the same time there will be exhibited in two rooms on the main floor a collection of examples of the arts of China and Japan, consisting of paintings, pottery and porcelain...
...writing in the current Illustrated is interesting; but it wants seriously the smoothness of good English and careful editing. The pictures for the number are excellent in subject, but they must be printed black on white before they will show to advantage. There is a subtle irony in the picture of two Yale men wading a river, entitled "The Harvard-Yale Cross-Country...
...prints today a reproduction of the preliminary sketch submitted to the Directors by the architects, Messrs. Newhall and Blevins of Boston. The present plans provide for an entrance to the store on the street level with considerable spaces reserved for show windows. The facade is of Harvard brick with white marble trimmings. It is proposed also to erect an addition in the rear of the present store, thus greatly increasing the available floor space. When the reconstruction plans are completed, the Co-operative's building will extend from Massachusetts avenue through to Palmer street. It is anticipated that...
...then we learn from the Chicago Examiner that Harvard men, to save laundry bills, are wearing black accordeon-plaited dress shirts and black stocks. They will go several rounds, while their white cousins are good for but one dance or dinner. The author of this story is wasting the ingenuity of a great investor...
...Germany on a lonely American boy whose "morals, like his religion, had been a family hand-me-down given him by his father." The detestable smugness of the Pastor's household is realistically described, and the only wonder is that Kendall did not find his way to the white--or should we say the red--lights sooner. The story might have ended after Kendall reads the delayed home letters. It is an admirable lesson to foolish fathers...