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...Rockefeller Foundation, the Fund being now one hundred thousand dollars shy. To increase the sporting chance the latest challenge has been hurled directly in the teeth of New England. Her reputation for open-handed giving and largesse is at stake and ninety thousand dollars has been set as its proof. A new zest has been added to what must have become a palling pastime, which coupled with the high worth of the cause would seem to add much to the gentle art of giving, --to the Harvard Law School Endowment Fund...
...Memorial Room of Widener Library is exhibiting a collection of proofs, corrected in the author's handwriting, and designed to show the different methods used by famous writers in their proof reading. The Treasure Room is exhibiting a collection of early Latin originals and facsimiles...
Among the authors and works represented in the Memorial Room collection are manuscript and proof corrections by Tennyson of his "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava." a less well known companion poem to "The Charge of the Light Brigade...
...corrections of Thackeray's are also on display one of a manuscript of his lecture on George II, the other of the Roundabout Papers. Other proofs corrected personally by the author include "The Surgeon's Daughter." by Scott, "The Amazing Marriage," by Meredith, "Ballads," by Rosetti, and a proof of "Bells and Pomegranates," by Browning, on which in addition to the usual annotations, he drew pictures in the margin illustrating his points...
...most valuable set of proofs in the collection is that of "Kim," by Kipling. This set would bring several thousand dollars at auction. Lewis Carroll's correaction of his "Phantasmagoria," one of the recently acquired Carroll collection, is also on show, as is the proof of "Confessions of a Unionist," by Stevenson. This work, which deals with the Irish question, was originally set up for Scribner's Magazine, but as they did not dare to publish it for fear of causing trouble, it was not actually brought out until recently...