Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Students possess a wealth of personal effects, many of which have long been discarded. Every man has a shelf or drawer full of things which he no longer uses. Old clothing accumulates rapidly. It is psychologically natural, however, for men to part slowly with possessions once acquired, and to declare they have nothing to give, upon being questioned by a collector. There seems to be nothing more difficult than the emptying of an overcrowded drawer into the waiting hands of charity...
...countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were nowhere received as enthusiastically as in the United States...
...bequest of Mrs. James T. Fields gives Widener Library twenty-five of the more important volumes from the 'Shelf of Old Books' which she described so delightfully in her essays published under that title in 1894. In their new home they can never exert the charm --of which they were after all but a part of the frame--that made Mrs. Fields's home for a third of a century the most-sought literary mecca for those who knew their way about Boston. They will, however, find some old and many new friends on the securer shelves of the library...
...This shelf-full is equally remarkable for its manuscripts in the autograph of authors who won a permanent place in English literature, for its personal letters, written for the most part to Mr. Fields or to his wife, signed by well-known names, and for its volumes which once belonged to famous persons...
...which has been called the Phillips-Barron-Batchelder cup will be held for one year by the victorious seven (or more) until four legs are won. The team first winning four legs will obtain permanent possession of the trophy. The CRIMSON has already added another shelf to its well filled trophy case to accommodate this latest offering. This preparation was made only after the most careful deliberation because the members of the CRIMSON team fully realize that virtue is its own reward. However, the cup will scarcely be out of place even in such an environment...