Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amory Houghton '21, donor of the Houghton Rare Book Library, the Yard's latest building, has been appointed Deputy Bureau Chief of the new Bureau of Industry Operation, the War Production Board announced yesterday...
...bureau has been established to assure the greatest possible efficiency in the production of war materials and essential civilian goods. Houghton, who has been president of the Corning Glass Works since 1930, will assist in coordinating 24 main industry branches with the war drive...
Nearly complete except for the ivy, Widener Jr. entered yesterday upon its career as a glorified Treasure Room. The primary purpose of the Houghton Library is to make the University's rare books "earn their keep," by exhibition to the public eye. The dungeons where the volumes have hitherto rested are being turned over to the Catalogue Department...
There are two floors of stacks below the building, having a capacity of more than 1,000,000 books. The present collection about half fills them, and about a tenth of these are on exhibition. Unlike the dingy labyrinths of Houghton's senior partner, the stacks are bright with fluorescent lighting that penetrates even to the bottom shelf, but only members of the staff will be allowed to appreciate them. The light and humidity of the entire building are so regulated as to prolong the life of the manuscripts...
...Arthur Houghton's grant has added a pleasing bit of architecture to the Yard, as well as furnished Widener's Treasures with a long-needed accessibility. Less important, perhaps, it has provided a refreshing footnote to the story of a University in wartime...