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...Transcript, whose editorial is reprinted in an adjoining column, states the case for Boston against Councillor Fitzgerald's objection to the Harvard Business and Boston Public Library merger. The advantages of the merger to Harvard are less tangible. The University's business library will be enriched to some extent. Beyond that there is almost nothing beside what general satisfaction can be gained from watching the University perform a useful public service. One is inclined to agree with the Transcript that "the whole arrangement is plainly one under which the city of Boston will receive much more than it gives...
...When Councillor John I. Fitzgerald assails the great service that would be done for the people of Boston under the terms of the co-operative agreement between the Boston Public Library and the Harvard Business Library, it is a bit difficult to have patience. The whole arrangement is plainly one under which the city of Boston will receive much more than it gives. All the Boston Library does is to make the new Harvard library in Brighton a depository for such scattering books on business as are not required for ordinary current use at the Library in Copley square...
...this large expense, and expert service, which the Harvard Business Library now stands ready to assume, as a matter of sheer helpfulness to the business men of Boston. As for Councillor Fitzgerald's complaint that business men will have to go to Brighton to secure this aid, the truth is, of course, that no such embarrassment is anticipated. Under the agreement the Librarians of the two institutions are to work out plans and regulations providing for the most direct delivery service that can possibly be attained. All any citizen needs to do, in order to secure special assistance, will...
...cities elsewhere throughout the Nation have established. And time and again their efforts have been thrown down, because members of the City Council, have called this "mere graft" for the business community and a "scheme" on the part of the Chamber of Commerce to help its own interests. Now Councillor Fitzgerald suddenly grows strangely tender for the convenience of Boston's business men and on this part of his case as aforesaid it is difficult to have patience...
Mayor Edward W. Quinn of Cambridge was reelected for the fourth time yesterday. He defeated his only opponent, Councillor Ralph W. Robart, by the small margin of 3000 votes...