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Much of personal life of students of the middle ages is revealed by student handbooks. Such books, Professor Haskins continued, contain much useless information. Consider the following "Don'ts": "Wash your hands in morning: if time, your face. Don't pick teeth with knife. Don't stare at your neighbor at table. Scrape bones with your knife, don't gnaw them: when done with bones, put them in bowl or on floor...
...priests, flares duskily at the right. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), greatest of the Dutch School, was born to wealth, married to an adored wife, Saskia, but ended in the bankruptcy court, a widower. The charming Saskia was the subject of countless pictures. A new art center, which will contain no school of instruction, will be established in Paris, as a gathering place for American artists in France. The site will be the Hotel de Lausun, a large and fine building on the He St. Louis, in the Seine. The purchase will be arranged by the National Academy of Design...
...King has been writing since 1900, when he published his first novel, "Griselda". Since that time he has written many popular books and has become one of the outstanding figures in American literature. His published works number fifteen and contain among them such widely known volumes as "Let Not Man Put Asunder", "The Giant's Strength", "Wild Olive", "The Street Called Straight", "The Letter of the Contract", "The High Heart", and "The City of Comrades...
Chance rummagers in the poetry stacks of Widener, in the sections from 1832-1900, will have noticed volume after volume of obscure poets or poetasters. Each is inscribed with the forgotten author's signature, most of them contain inserted notes or pencilled dedications in this manner: "To Professor Longfellow, with the poet's humble respects;" or: "Trusting that Dr. Lowell will find leisure to read these modest gleanings from the pen of--." The books are the garner of Longfellow's and Lowell's visits to England, where they became the patrons of aspiring writers, and were showered with literary products...
...concert lists for the week contain the name of that eminent Doctor of Laws, Jan Ignaz Paderewski. The University of Southern California has just conferred upon the famous Pole an honorary degree of legal science, presumably in celebration of his experiences as the Prime Minister of his native country. But, laws and premiership notwithstanding, Paderewski remains the ideal figure of a musician. During his present American tour he is seen in his most characteristic guise not so much in the formal parts of his program as in impromptu encores. During the applause after his last announced number, the lights...