Word: librarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred rare Chinese books, salvaged from the war torn areas of central and eastern China are now resting safely in a fireproof room in the cellar of Boylston Library, after a year and a half of work in China by Dr. A. Kaiming Chin, head librarian of the Harvard Yenching Institute...
...father's covered wagon from Illinois when he was 14, saw his mother die of plains cholera on the way, helped to bury her beside the trail. He carried a musket in the local Indian "war" in 1855, attended Pacific University and became Portland's first librarian. A short article he wrote about Lincoln's assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor...
...Welsh, Elizabeth Whittle, Frances Tooker, and various maids who were briefly employed in the Pepys household. But not so many readers know that Pepys's famed diary has never been published in an unexpurgated version. For the last eight years, in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Librarian Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner has been making a new transcript of the six volumes of the Pepys diaries, including the "indelicate" passages which previous editors left...
...added further screens by making up a pidgin language of French, Spanish and Latin, with toy words and a freakish kind of lustful baby talk. "She would not suffer that je should poner my mano above ses jupes which je endeavoured," he wrote of one modest soul. But although Librarian Turner transcribed such passages, Pepys's secrets are still reasonably safe 270 years after the night Mrs. Pepys caught him with the charming Deb Willet. Talking things over with publishers and college authorities, Librarian Turner decided that the new edition too should be expurgated...
After studying Pepys for eight years, his "admiration for the man has grown into something very like affection." For Librarian Turner, publishing Pepys's secrets would be like betraying the confidences of an intimate friend...