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...Harvard, are almost alone in this country in the potentiality for guarding out cultural heritage in our books," says Oscar Handlin, Loeb University Professor and former director of the University Library, "so that the responsibility affects not only this institution but the national scholarly community as a whole...
...person in total agreement is Sidney Verba '53, who has just taken over Handlin's post as director of the system. "All of a sudden," he says, "I'm lying awake at night worrying about the fact that the books in Widener are rotting. It's a very serious, expensive issue...
...final annual report as director of the University Library, Handlin candidly acknowledges that the centrifugal force generated by Harvard's system being composed of dozens of decentralized libraries poses a major threat to effective, integrated improvement. A University Library Council, headed by the president, supervised the whole system from 1867 to 1909, but had little effect on daily administration and failed to achieve its goal of maintaining direction over all of Harvard's libraries...
Sidney Verba '53, the genial political scientist, was mentioned as a likely candidate for dean of the Faculty. He didn't get the job, but instead was tapped to replace Oscar Handlin as Pfozheimer University Professor and University Librarian. Handlin moved over to the Loeb University chair, replacing retiring Law School eminence grise, Archibald Cox '34. Two other scholars also nabbed for university chairs, the highest honor Harvard can bestow on its professors: outgoing Dean of the Faculty Henry Resovsky and Business School teaching whiz Roland Christensen...
Most of us gravitated to the challening courses and majors. We were part of a fabulous era of lecturers (I treasure my memories of lectures by Bate, Demos, Handlin, Hugo, Lynn, Perry Miller, Mark deWolfe Howe and Kenneth Murdock) but mostly of weary section men. I found the curriculum in the humanities and social sciences well designed but many of my science and math oriented friends seemed to have endless struggles with pre-requisites and conflicts. We were thrilled to be at Harvard, but underneath our pride I think we were disappointed at the lack of contact with the faculty...