Word: farnsworth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Widener Library during the Christmas holidays, December 23 to January 2 inclusive, will close at 5.30 o'clock and will be closed throughout the day on Christmas Day and on Sundays, December 24 and 31. On Monday, January 1, the General Reading Room and the Farnsworth Room will be open as on other holidays, but the delivery desk will be closed. The Lower Reading Room will be open on week-days, except January 1, from 9 to 1 o'clock only. Books may be taken out at 12 o'clock to be returned at 9 o'clock the following...
...open from 8.45 A. M. to 5.30 P. M. The Lower Reading Room will be open from 9 A. M. to 1 P. M. on week-days and books may be taken out after 12 o'clock to be returned at 9 A. M. the next day. The Farnsworth Room will be open daily from 9 A. M. to 5.30 P. M. and will be closed December 25 only...
...taken no official action towards erecting a fitting memorial to its alumni who fell in the war. There have been many suggestions; but the only war memorials to Harvard men at present established, are from individuals, the Victor Chapman and the Fiske Fellowships, the Webster scholarship, and the Farnsworth Room. The Sargent paintings, placed where Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates, are passing by hundreds every day, stand as a constant and striking reminder of how much the University's living owe to the sacrifices of its dead...
...Farnsworth matter is divided into two classes. In the first are books on the War in general. Among these are such works as John Mansfield's "Gallipoli", "Heroes All", which contains brief sketches of the lives of all men decorated for bravery by the United States government; a work on the part played by New England men in France and another which deals with the achievements of aviators from New England...
...third resource, if the assigned reading is in an English course, is the Farnsworth-room. But somebody is before him. The whole class knows the exact position of the book on the Farnsworth shelves and the Average Member gazes at the empty space where it belongs...