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...East has taken a slap at the West. The People's Symphony Orchestra of Boston played the other day a piece by Saint-Saens entitled Hail California. This composition was written for the world's fair of 1915, and, existing only in manuscript, has been given heretofore nowhere else than in California. Presumably the Native Sons think highly of this music written in glorification of their state. The Bostonese, however, saluted Hail California as bad music. "The feeblest and least inspired piece of music written at full maturity by any modern composer of distinction...
...periodic rediscovery of the Treasure Room at Widener reveals penmanship so regular as to be almost inhuman, on yellowing vellum brightened by red, blue, and gold Gothic capitals. The musty savour of the rush-strewn cubicles still adheres to a leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during...
...travels through the world whither his hobby-horse bears him, sees those things which the faithful animal gives him to see, browses on what fodder of facts the hobby recommends. For years an ancient Abyssinian manuscript. "The Glory of the Kings", has rested among the treasures of the British Museum, and many times has it been translated. But never until an enthusiast for flying studied it did it disclose that Solomon gave to his friend, the Queen of Sheba, an airship which her son, Menyelek, flew. Without the hobby-horse of Colonel Lockwood Marsh, Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society...
...books which Mr. Plimpton has lent to the College Library bear on religious education--manuscripts of the Fathers of the Church, Ambrose, Augustine, Isidore of Seville, Peter Lombard, and many others, which were the means of instruction for the clergy, and catechisms, primers, and little manuscript compendiums of doctrine of the 13th and 14th centuries, designed for the use of children and those ignorant of Latin...
...Letters, manuscripts, and a pocket magnifying glass of John Ruskin were placed on exhibition yesterday in the Treasure Room at Widener Library. They are gifts from the family of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46. The exhibition also includes an etul case of Mrs. Thomas Carlyle, a locket containing a wisp of Thomas Carlyle's hair, a volume of original letters to Professor Norton from Longfellow, Lowell, and others, an original manuscript of John Leverett, President of the College from 1708 to 1724, and a contract of a grant of land to Sir Joseph Eyles bearing the Great Seal...