{"id":9301,"date":"2023-12-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:11:43","slug":"happy-holidays-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/happy-holidays-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays from Special Collections!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rare Books and Special Collections is open Monday through Thursday this week (December 18-21, 2023) \u2014 appointments are recommended. After that, we will be closed from Friday, December 22, 2023, through Monday, January 1, 2024, in participation with the campus-wide holiday break for all faculty, staff, and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Collections will reopen on Tuesday, January 2, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the last blog post for 2023.
Happy Holidays to you and yours from
Notre Dame\u2019s Rare Books and Special Collections!<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Christmas Number of the Lake Michigan Yachting News<\/em>,
December 1925, published by the\u00a0Chicago Yacht Club.
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by Greg Bond, Sports Archivist and Curator, Joyce Sports Research Collection <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post features images\u2014including this colorful jack-in-the-box Christmas cover\u2014from the Lake Michigan Yachting News<\/em>, the official publication of the Chicago Yacht Club. The Yachting News<\/em> covered all aspects of yachting and boating on Lake Michigan, reporting about sailing races, popular excursion routes, environmental conditions, sailing technology and equipment, and the social activities of the Midwestern yachting set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Yachting News<\/em> also frequently relied on humor and satire in its columns as shown by the “Just a Few Merry Christmas Hints” column below. The journal’s tongue-in-cheek holiday gift suggestions included this advice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you have a friend who is a racing skipper you may give him a bunch of your old safety razor blades for splitting hairs on questions of rules. If you have a friend on the Race Committee, give him a drink\u2014he will need it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Hesburgh Libraries recently acquired a bound volume with 18 issues of the Lake Michigan Yachting News<\/em> for the years 1925 and 1926. Worldcat<\/a> lists only three other libraries with scattered holdings of this scarce publication. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rare Books and Special Collections is open Monday through Thursday this week (December 18-21, 2023) \u2014 appointments are recommended. After that, we will be closed from Friday, December 22, 2023, through Monday, January 1, 2024, in participation with the campus-wide holiday break for all faculty, staff, and students. Special Collections will reopen on Tuesday, January 2, … Continue reading Happy Holidays from Special Collections!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":9360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12646,75063,75052],"tags":[77948,77929,75749],"class_list":["post-9301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-sports-research","category-us-history-culture","tag-otd-holidays","tag-periodicals","tag-recent-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9379,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions\/9379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}