Word: bodleian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three-fold purpose. It will, in the first place, provide a central hall for the annual dinners which are given in accordance with Cecil Rhodes will. A library with shelf space for 60,000 volumes will also be installed in the building to relieve the congestion in Bodleian Library. Finally, Rhodes House is to serve as a gathering place for former Rhodes' Scholars returning in after years...
...practical contribution to the University, a library room is to be provided for the relief of congestion in the Bodleian Library. The additional space will not only take care of the Bodleian over flow, but will be used to supplement the present collection with books published in America and the Dominions. The new library will be distinctively a library of the literature of the British Commonwealth and the United States. The special Parkin Library, in memory of the late Sir George Parkin, will form a part of this collection...
Following the example of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Widener Library will publish from time to time, with the cooperation of a committee of undergraduates of the John Barnard Associates, a list of the Library's desiderata in contemporary poetry. This innovation comes as a result of the inability of the Library authorities, working by themselves, satisfactorily to keep up the collection of modern poetry...
...students have increased-due to wise investment-from ?300 to ?350 and finally to ?400 (12,000) (TIME, Oct. 5). The Rhodes trustees have also, lately, been in a position to undertake the erection of a Rhodes House at Oxford, to form an annex to the Bodleian Library and a centre for students of politics in the English-speaking world and for African students. Last week at the annual Rhodes dinner Trustee Sir Otto Beit announced still another Rhodes innovation-a memorial lectureship of ?500 per annum to bring to Oxford for a term each year and for not less...
...directories, public announcements and the catalogues of British universities. The director and his assistants are prepared also to put visiting students in personal touch with university and college officers and teachers anywhere in the United Kingdom; and to secure admission to libraries--including that of the British Museum and Bodleian Library at Oxford...