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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grist for the tabloid mills, pun material for Will Rogers stuff out of which we-view-with-alarm editorials are written--such is the effect of William Hale Thompson's election as mayor of Chicago on the extra-Chicago portion of the nation. Meanwhile Chicago politicians scratch their heads and reformers settle down to a prosperous season. The city knows what to expect; two terms of Mayor Thompson have convinced it that all is not sweet and clean by the shorts of Lake Michigan. Nevertheless it is willing to have another...
William Searle Holdsworth, Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford, received the Ames Prize, awarded by the Faculty of Harvard Law School for "the most meritorious law book or legal essay written in English and published during the years...
Aside from the autographed volumes on exhibit, there is a whole case of letters, written by such people as Florence Nightingale, Horace Walpole, Max Muller, John Stuart Mille. Bulwer Lyton, John Tyndell, John Drinkwater, E. A. Robinson and Donald MacMillan...
...which the Vagabond has long been waiting: a lecture on Wagner. Wagner has always been for him a most fascinating figure, not only because of the music to which the Vagabond is an ardent convert -- but because of the man himself. Unquestionably, the composer's greatest works were written not merely for the sake of the music as is usually the case but as much to embody his philosophical ideas and theories. Wagner was what one might call a musical-dramatist; he was also a stony socialist of the romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make...
...book, "Night Thoughts", written by Edward Young, with illustrations drawn by Blake is of especial interest because it is one of the very few ever colored by him. "The Book of Job" and other Biblical books illustrated by Blake are also in the showcases this week...