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...Massachusetts Library Club held a memorial meeting in Channing Hall yesterday in honor of the late Justin Winsor, at which Mr. W. C. Lane of the Boston Athenaeum read a paper entitled "Justin winsor, Librarian and Historian." The paper was compiled by Professor Hart and others of Mr. Winsor's friends...
Professor Tyler was born in Boston, Dec. 12, 1852, and prepared for Harvard at the Boston Latin School. While in College he was president of the Athenaeum and O. K. societies, and of the Advocate. He was considered one of the most accomplished teachers in New England of classics, French history and English literature...
...well known publisher of that name. After graduating from Harvard he spent a year in the Columbia Law School, from which he went to Minneapolis, where he was admitted to the Minnesota bar. He was soon drawn into library work, however, and became librarian of the Minneapolis Athenaeum, then containing about ten thousand volumes, which it was intended to incorporate in a larger and freer city library...
...Putnam stayed seven years in all at the Athenaeum and the Public Library and then resigned and returned to the east. For the last three years he has been a member of the Suffolk bar, in active practice in Boston. In this time he has made one trip abroad to buy books on architecture and the fine arts for Minneapolis...
...Lane '81, formerly assistant librarian of the college, has been chosen librarian of the Boston Athenaeum...