Princeton Weekly Bulletin May 22, 2000 Vol. 89, No. 28 [<] [>] [archive]

Page one news and features • Art from gender viewpoint • Hydrogen: was lost, is found • Proposal may improve hazardous waste cleanup • Shapiro honored for leadership on ethical issues Inside • Faculty to advise on Wythes recommendations • Professors instruct Teachers as Scholars • Students are advised to "Flee youthful lusts" • 100 Treasures from the Collections of the PU Library • Alumni Learning People • Physics major wins Churchill Scholarship • Faculty become emeriti • More... Nassau Notes • Arts • Notices Sections • Calendar • Employment

A Century for the Millennium: One Hundred Treasures from the Collections of the Princeton University Library The items pictured here are only a few of those on display in the Exhibition Gallery at Firestone Library through November 5. The gallery is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 500 p.m. on weekends. Ktah Salat al-Swait (Italy, 1514), the first book printed in Arabic Visions of the Daughters of Albion, by William Blake (1793) Illuminated manuscript of the Persian national epic Shahnameh, by Firdawsi (1589) Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in a photo album belonging to the author Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)

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