Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Christmas now at hand there is a display in the Treasure Room of Widener Library, appropriate to the season. This collection consists of a number of different sorts of volumes of Christmas Carols, Songs, stories, and so forth. One of the two show-cases is quite resplendent with the...
One of the more amusing exhibits is a book edited by Thomas Tusser in London in 1580 entitled "500 Points of Good Husbandry". The page to which it is opened enumerates the benefits for which the members of a household should be grateful on Christmas.
"A Christmas Tale" by David Garrick may also be seen. This is a first edition and is written to be played in the Theater-royal in Drury-Lane. There are several pages of water color illustrations by Randolph Caldecotte in the same case.
A 1663 edition of the John Eliot Indian Bible is one of the rarer specimens on exhibition, while nearby is a copy of "Old English Carols for Christmas" with Calligraphy by David Pottinger, who is the head of the University Press.
President and Mrs. Lowell cordially invite all men who are students in the University to their house. 17 Quiney Street, on Christmas Eve. Tuesday from 8 to 10 o'clock in the evening.