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...took a hurried heaving of academic shoulders to force the door open, and thus to dedicate Oxford's $4,000,000 New Bodleian Library. The old Bodleian, which started in Shakespeare's day, was once the biggest library in the Empire, is still among the world's top 15 (an estimated 1,500,000 books). The bulging Bodleian long ago overflowed into nearby buildings and vaults; the Copyright Act entitles it to a copy of every new work published within the United Kingdom. Largely paid for by Rockefeller Foundation money, the new annex has space for five...
...reputation was known to us. We were told by our older friends all the stories and anecdotes which are now part of the "Kitty" legend. We heard about Kitty crossing Harvard Square, Kitty falling off the lecture platform, and Kitty at the Bodleian...
...William Richard Morris, ist Baron of Nuffield, who last year brought tears of joy to the eyes of Oxonians with a gift of $10,000,000 for a medical centre and $500,000 for the Bodleian Library, had previously given $700,000 for an infirmary. Last week he tossed Oxford University another $6,500,000. He gave $1,000,000 for more medical research, $500,000 to buy a site for a new school of physical chemistry, $5,000,000 for a new college for social studies. Thereupon, the onetime bicycle mechanic, now the Henry Ford of Great Britain...
...Coronation (TIME, May 24). This blazed with the 106-carat Kohinoor diamond once in the State Crown of Queen Mary who, not present at last week's Court, recently appeared wearing a mortarboard when she graciously laid at Oxford the cornerstone of an extension of the famed Bodleian Library. If she liked, the Queen Mother could sign herself Mary, LL.D., D.C.L., Mus.D. Palace gossip had it that it was excitable Randolph Churchill, journalistic son of Statesman Winston Churchill, who had aroused Edward of Windsor about the Garter King of Arms last week...
Five facsimiles of original editions of Shakespearian works are now on display in the Lowell House Library. Taken from the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library, the exhibition includes...