Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting on the significance of the Gutenberg Bible, William A. Jackson, professor of Bibliography and head of Houghton Library, said that the book remains of great interest today because it achieved enduring perfection so soon after the first work was done on printing...
...EVERY MAN A PENNY (345 pp.)-Bruce Marshall-Houghton Mifflin...
Since then, Harvard and the other participants have poured a steady stream of books and newspapers into the library, which now contains about 345,000 volumes. The University contracted for 40 per cent of the space, and has filled 95 per cent of its allotment. Construction of Lamont and Houghton eased the crowding in Widener considerably, but about 23,000 books were sent across the river last year ,many of them wartime European publications which could not be placed in regular circulation because they were unbound...
Part of the crowd waited while the two lunched and then responded to their emergence by some polite applause, without so much as a Regular Cheer for the Pandit. As rubbernecks goggled, Nehru visited Lamont and Houghton Libraries. In the Lamont reading room he asked, wide-eyed, "And can the students borrow these books?"--followed by some uneasy moments while University officialdom tried to recall the right answer...
...thinning crowd of students and townspeople after lunch followed Nehru on a trip to Lamont Library, Houghton Library, Lowell House, Langdell Hall, the University Observatory, and Fogg Art Museum...