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...late Professor Sophocles was first "brought out," it is said, in 1836 by two Yale tutors, Messrs. N. P. Seymour and S. C. Brace, who had known him at Hartford, where he was living in obscurity with the manuscript of his Greek grammar packed away at the bottom of his trunk. They invited him to come to New Haven, and the Yale people at once made him at home, giving him the nominal position of assistant to Professor Gibbs, the Hebrew scholar, who was then librarian, in order that the young Greek might be entitled to a room...
...editors of the Swarthmore Phoenix are required to submit to the Faculty all manuscript intended for publication...
...Magdalen choir is one of the best in Oxford. A stone stairway leads to the Great Hall, which is well paneled with old oak and contains some good pictures by old masters, mostly portraits.-Opposite the hall and just above the cloisters is the library, rich in books and manuscripts, among its most valuable treasures is a manuscript of St. Chrysostom in Greek and some works printed by Caxton. Descending one reaches the cloisters built about the great quadrangle and generally considered the most beautiful portion of the college. The cloister-green with its close-cut grass sets off admirably...
...great hatred of impostors of every kind, and it was not very safe for any such to approach him. A man recently called on him with some manuscripts, professing to be autographs of some of the early Fathers of the church. He exposed the pretensions of several without losing his composure; but when at last the original manuscript of the Athanasian Creed, in the writing of St. Athanasius (!), was produced, he called his visitor's attention to a large club in the corner of the room, and pointed significantly towards the door, by which the terrified man made his escape...
...history of the Vatican Library, which now contains perhaps the rarest collection of books and manuscripts in Europe, reaches back to the time of Nicholas V., who, in 1447, transferred the manuscripts in the Lateran, the church of highest dignity in the Roman Communion, to his own palace. In all he collected about 9,000 manuscripts, part of which were destroyed by his successor. Pope Sixtus V., however, showed great zeal in builking up the papal library. In 1588, he erected the beginning of the present structure. The celebrity of the Library dates from the sixteenth century, when important additions...