Word: director
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Charles C. Lane '04 has resigned as director of the Harvard University Press, and Harold Murdock, vice-president of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, has been chosen by the Corporation to be his successor Mr. Lane has been actively connected with the work since 1908, when he was appointed Publication Agent of the University to succeed the late John B. Williams '77, upon the death of the latter. At that time the printing was done in a small room in University Hall, but was expanded in 1913, and became the University Press, with Mr. Lane as its first director...
...Murdock, the new director, is a banker, book collector, and historian. He is the author of "The Reconstruction of Europe," "Earl Percy's Dinner Table," and a historical sketch of the great Boston fire. In addition he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former president of the Club of Odd Volumes. In recognition of his distinction as a book collector, he received an Honorary Degree as Master of Arts from the University in 1916. He will begin his new work in January...
...evening of November 14, Mr. William Iyins, Print Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York City, will lecture at the Dunster House Bookshop, on the subject of "Woodcuts." The talk is intended primarily for members of the Fine Arts courses, and it is to them that invitations will be sent...
...very probable," said Mr. Charles C. Lane, Director of the University Press, "that at the close of the present printers' strike in New York, the strikers will find that many of the publishers employing them will have adopted the new method of printing introduced by the Literary Digest. The rapid improvement which each new issue of the Digest shows, and the comparative cheapness of the process, makes this seem likely...
...also been announced that all Freshmen who have been rowing under the compulsory physical training system, and who are now having a two weeks' rest, must report at the office of the Physical Director in Weld 3 before Saturday to be assigned to regular physical training sections...