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...Dowse against the people of the United States. Secondly I should like to express the opinion that his patronizing belittlement of, TIME, coupled with the ridiculous mishandling of tense in his letter, arouses in my mind the very gravest suspicions as to how he obtained the stationery bearing the imprint of the "Author's Club, 2 Whitehall Court, S. W. 1, London, England...
...historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly accordant with the available documentary evidence, but shall none the less bear the imprint of an imaginative recreation...
...last to question the benefits or the delights of European travel, and yet one may without cynicism question whether the hasty progress which is being made by the greater part of the 500,000 Americans through England, France, Italy, and no doubt several other countries, will really produce much imprint on minds either young or old. Tours carefully planned to include the greatest possible number of cathedrals, picture galleries and museums; hotels crowded with other Americans; shops bearing the sign: 'Here English is spoken'-all these things are very pleasant and entertaining, but it may surely be doubted...
...Gutenberg from the birthplace of his mother, Elsgen Wyrich, is thought to have printed this Bible. But Peter Schoffer and Johann Fust were also commercializing this newly devised method at that time (the middle of the 15th Century), and may possibly have done the work. Gutenberg never put his imprint on anything. But certainly in 1454 he printed and dated Pope Nicholas V's letter of indulgence on behalf of the King of Cyprus, the first dated piece of separate-type printing and the forerunner of this Bible...
...idea that we wish most firmly to imprint in this report, is that the best solution of whatever problem does exist, lies in the creation, by the Student Council and other undergraduate organizations, of a general attitude which would look on the proctor more and more as an aid, as a special help to the student, and less and less as an antagonistic watch-dog, set over a room to find as many morally deficient students as possible...