Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following story is composed of excerpts from an article written for the current Atlantic Monthly by LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, former president of Radcliffe College and Dean of Harvard...
...report shows, Harvard has been in general, very successful in eliminating the evils usually attendant upon college sport. Certainly the H. A. A. has made a continuous and sincere effort to keep Harvard athletics in line with the written and unwritten principles of the amateur spirit. The fact that it was the officials of the H. A. A. who were responsible for bringing to the attention of the investigators the one feature of their policy which failed to pass musier is ample proof of the eagerness of these men to put Harvard athletics in the cleanest possible condition...
Several unusual copies are to be seen in the Widener room. One very old edition, of which there are but three other copies extant at the present time, is the "York Manual." This masterpiece was written entirely by hand in red and black figures, and inserted between the lines are musical notations, which are in many cases the same as are used in hymns sung at churches of the present...
...Sarum Primer" is being shown in two or three different editions. One of these, written by hand in 1475, is colored with red, blue, and black letters, while there are illuminated decorations at intervals throughout the book. Another "Sarum" was printed by the French Antonio Verard in 1504, then illuminated by hand. On the border of every page are four-pictures, some groups of them beautifully colored...
...Fine Arts since 1905, he was director of the Harvard Palestinian Expedition, conducting excavations at Samaria, 1907-10. Besides being archaeologist in charge of excavations of the Egyptian government in Nubia in preparation to flooding lower Nubia by raising the Assuan dam from 1907 to 1909, Professor Reisner has written several volumes about his work...