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Abel Wolman ('13) during his professional career notes in his diary Rosh Hashanah (on an earlier page) and Yom Kippur, indicating his taking those days off. There is no mention of other holidays (except Passover in some years) or of taking Friday…

Manfred and Allen Guttmacher also active

Flier for window display: "A Woman Living Here Has Registered to Vote Thereby Assuming Responsibility of Citizenship," 1920

"A Message of Inclusion, A History of Exclusion: Racial Injustice at the Peabody Institute" is a paper examining Peabody's exclusion of African-American students. With a focus on the years 1924-1968, the paper also reflects on more recent efforts to…

Broadside print of three apocryphal texts; Jesus's so-called 'Letter from Heaven', first promulgated in the sixth century; the correspondence between Jesus and 'Agbarus' (i.e. the King Abgar of Edessa), dating from the third century, and reported in…

Tale in a Periodical

William Osler, one of the founding physicians of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, had a son, Edward Revere Osler. In 1915 Revere, as he was known, dropped out of Oxford’s Christ Church College to join the war effort. In August 1917, serving in Belgium…