Word: bookshelf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inspector looked the place over and classified it in the same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...
Lamont Library just won't make an impression on the ambling Princeton invader should he chance to explore the Yard. The men from Nassau town are used to this sort of glorified bookshelf; they've got one three times as big themselves--and just...
...aroused. True, Palmer was a classical scholar--his translations of Homer are proof of that; but that is not why he was a great personality--one of the Great Quintette in Philosophy as characterized by Rollo Brown in that fascinating book (which no doubt is on the CRIMSON bookshelf) "Harvard Yard in the Golden...
...situation is actually better than it used to be at Widener, he stated, although there were unofficial reports that certain reprobates had made off with as many as 30 volumes of Lamont bookshelf apiece...
...next edition of the Bookshelf will appear on or about June...