Word: farnsworth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Farnsworth Room in the Widener Library will be formally dedicated at a reception tomorrow afternoon a 3 o'clock and will be opened to all members of the University at the conclusion of the exercises. The room will be open thereafter from 9 o'clock in the morning to 10 at night on week-days and from 1 to 10 o'clock Sundays...
...Farnsworth Room is intended to give a pleasant and quiet opportunity for general reading,--of reading as distinguished from study. The collection at present consists mainly of English literature, but foreign literature, travel history and biography are also well represented. The books are to be used only in the room. Other copies of most of the books in the new room can be obtained for our side reading through the Delivery Desk on the second floor...
...room is a memorial to Henry Weston Farnsworth '12 who, s a soldier of the Foreign Legion in France, was killed at Tahure in September, 1916. The donors of this new addition to the Library are his parents, William Farnsworth '77 and Mrs. Farnsworth, of Boston. The greater part of the books have been given by Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth or by their fiends; other come from the library of Franklin Haven '57, of Boston, given to the Widener Library by his sister, Miss Mary E. Haven...
Henry Gustav Byng '13, Andre Cheronnet Champollion '02, Victor Emmanuel Chapman '13, Henry Augustus Colt '10, Charles Robert Cross, Jr., '03, Fritz Daur STB. '14, Calvin Wellington Day GS. 1913-14, Henry Weston Farnsworth '13, Morrill Stanton Gaunt, And., 1914-16, Harold Marion Crawford '11, Clyde Fairbanks Maxwell '14, Robert Edouard Pellissier '04, Norman Prince '08, Alyn Seeger '10, Dillwyn Parrish Starr '08, Edward Mandell Stone '08, Dr. Crosby Church Whitman '86, George Williamson '05, Allen M. Cleghorn (formerly an instructor...
...that time I believe that this wish and expectation of the architect has not been fulfilled. If such a panel were put up it would add to the beauty and dignity of the room and others might be placed with it in commemoration of men like Henry Farnsworth '12 and Victor Chapman '13, who also have given their lives for France...