{"id":1676,"date":"2014-05-19T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2014-05-19T12:28:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:28:01","slug":"commencement-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2014\/05\/19\/commencement-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_2854\"<\/a>We were thrilled yet again to have a steady stream of visitors on Saturday of Commencement Weekend, many of whom were urged to visit by President Jones, who has always been a staunch supporter of the Watkinson.<\/p>\n

In all we had 113 people, including students and their families, as well as random alumni, wander in between Noon and 3pm, who came to view our featured items:<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_2853\"<\/a>Lucky 13!,<\/em> a “baker’s dozen” of student exhibitions in the Watkinson Library including\u00a0Native American education movements,\u00a0explorations of Latino identity through artists’ books, 19th-century tourism in the Hudson Valley, the history of the Hartford Insane Asylum, and\u00a0the works\u00a0of Beatrix Potter.<\/p>\n

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\"2nd<\/a>The so-called “2nd Folio” of Shakespeare’s plays,\u00a0acquired in 2012, which was published in 1632, nine years after the landmark “First Folio” of 1623 (in which eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays\u00a0were published\u00a0for the first time). The 1632 edition bore over 1,200 corrections as well as\u00a0the first published poem by John Milton.<\/div>\n
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\"title<\/a>The first edition (Brooklyn, 1855) of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass<\/em>, which the poet self-published (he also designed the binding and set some of the type). Just acquired, this literary landmark has been considered America’s\u00a0second<\/em> Declaration of Independence, in terms of its radical break with European literary culture and distinctly American voice.<\/div>\n
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John James Audubon’s Birds of America <\/em>(1826-39). Given in 1900, this is by far the most valuable book at Trinity. We\u00a0began turning the page to a new bird every week in September 2011. We are halfway through Volume II, and will get through the entire 4-volume set sometime in 2019.<\/div>\n

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