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...Phillips Brooks House has just received as a gift from Mrs. John Cotton Brooks the working desk and chair of Phillips Brooks. The desk is an unusually large flat top oak desk and the chair is a revolving chair with a leather cushion and rattan back. The desk is to be marked with a plate bearing an inscription which will be written by Professor G. H. Palmer '64. For the present at least, both pieces of furniture will be placed in the Parlor of the Phillips Brooks House...
...Emperor William Fund, which is being raised in honor of the German Emperor by Americans who are interested in the work done by means of his gift to the Germanic Museum, amounts to $25,085. The purpose of this fund is to continue the work which has been done so far in the Germanic Museum, and to make it possible to make new additions. Subscriptions, varying from $1000 to $10, have been received from 64 different people...
...large photograph of Marshall Newell '94 will soon be presented to the Union as a gift of the class of 1909. Money for this picture will be obtained by small subscriptions from the members of the class, which will be collected by the following committee: R. T. Lee, chairman, F. L. Arey, G. W. C. Braithwaite, W. A. Edwards, N. G. Gray, F. A. Harding, C. Hemenway, E. P. Pearson, F. M. Smith, F. Shaw, R. S. Tabor...
...recent auction sale in New York the Library was able to buy, by means of the Dane gift, some twenty-five English plays. Among the more important of these may be mentioned: Marlowe's "Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta," 1633, first edition; Beaumont and Fletcher's "Knight of the Burning Pestle," 1635, second edition; Davenant's "Siege of Rhodes," 1670; Dryden's "Tempest," 1670, first edition, "Tyrannick Love," 1670, first edition, and "King Arthur," 1691, first edition, with the prologue and epilogue which are not in the edition of the same date already in the Library; Shadwell...
...other incunabula have lately been bought with the gift of Mr. Alain C. White: namely, Vergil, with the commentary of Servius Honoratus, Venice, printed by Jacobus Rubeus, 1475, and Petrach, Gli Triompi, Venice, Bartholomeus di Zanis...