Word: houghtons
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Dedication of the Houghton Library for the housing of Harvard's rare books is scheduled for tonight and tomorrow, climaxing 17 months of building and recurrent delays in opening...
Tonight's ceremonies will highlight the two-day dedication procedure with addresses to an invited audience of 300 by President Conant and donor Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. '29 in the new reading room. Earlier a small dinner will be held at the President's house and tomorrow from 2:30 to 6 o'clock a reception will be held for members of the Faculty, friends of the Library, and their wives. Roy E. Larsen '21, president of Time, and Sir Ronald Campbell, British Minister to the United States, will attend...
Most impressive of the additional books and collections in the building at this time is Houghton's own collection of John Keats. Ranked as a foremost bibliophile and holding the position of Curator of Rare Books in the Library of Congress, Houghton possesses one of the most extensive Keats' collections. This will now be on deposit in the Library and, combined with the older Amy Lowell collections, forms a macon far all students of the English poet...
...volume is to go on sale Saturday in connection with the dedication of Houghton Library. While they have printed only 237 copies, the five undergraduates expect that their book, written by the famous nineteenth-century English actress, will be of considerable value to scholars...
...Houghton, who is vice-president and director of Corning Glass Works and president and director of Steuben Glass. Inc., has had an interest in the proper care of rare books ever since he started collecting them in his undergraduate days. His collection of manuscripts of John Keats is the best extant, while his general collection has few rivals...