Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ready for sale on November 15, are three new books by members of the University Faculty. The first of these, "The Italian Emigration of Our Times," by Robert F. Foerster '06, Professor of Social Ethics at the University, considers the emigration question from the Italian point of view, investigates both the causes of the recent great migration from Italy and its effect on the countries which it strikes. He gives especial consideration to the Italian in this country and outlines a general emigration policy for Italy and other countries...
That every man has a right to affiliate himself with any organization or union to better his own economic condition is the view of Mr. H. J. Laski, University Lecturer in History and Government, Contrary to the usually accepted opinion, he would lay the blame for the police strike not on the policemen, but on the commissioner, who, according to Mr. Laski, was in large measure responsible for it. He asserts that the commissioner, knew that the men were forming a union, and later knew that they were going to strike, but that he failed to take such action...
There is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library a collection of books, views and manuscripts connected with the early history of the University. The most notable of this collection is the Burgess view of Harvard College issued in 1726, of which there is only one other copy extant. This is the earliest view of the College published. The engraving is nearly obliterated, but a later print, made from the other copy which is in the same case, enables one to fill in the gaps in the original...
Next to the Burgess view is the almost equally rare engraving of the College by Paul Revere, published in 1767. This engraving, from which the familiar print of the early College was made, is in a far better state of preservation...
...only volume belonging to John Harvard which survived the fire of 1764, are also preserved. The collection is in a new set of cabinets recently given, together, with some furniture, by the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers to the Treasure Room. The exhibition will be on view for several months...