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Bryant will be responsible for day-to-day management of the 7 million volume library, the third largest in the U.S., while Fainsod will deal with major questions of policy. Bryant will also take charge of directing the Harvard College Library, which includes Widener, Lamont, Houghton, and the Fine Arts Library, or about one-half the entire University collection. Previously supervision of the College Library has been under the aegis of the director...
Named to the position or Librarian of I Tatti is Martin J. Falgel '59, assistant to the Librarian of Houghton Library. He will finish cataloguing and organizing the collection of books bequeathed to the University as part of the villa by the late Bernard Berenson...
From the Widener Chamber the Tunnel strikes out in three directions. The shortest spur goes east under the basement of Widener, Houghton, and Lamont Libraries. A second arm (the one we had been in) runs north to Weld (where we had entered) and beyond to the Law School and science laboratories. The third section goes south to the Houses and the Business School. We followed this for a short distance--it looked just like the ear-her part of the Tunnel until we came to another smaller chamber. "Here," said Harry, "is our own underground railway." The "railway...
...Corning Glass Works nine years ago as general manager of the consumer-products division, it hardly seemed a promising post. Consumer products were only a small sideline in a company that concentrated on industrial and scientific products, and the top managerial posts were usually occupied by members of the Houghton family, which founded and still controls the company. But Waterman made Corning Ware a household word by developing kitchen products and selling them aggressively. Last week, at 57, he was rewarded for the transformation: he was elected Corning's president, replacing Amory Houghton Jr., 37, who became chairman...
Classicist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, diarist (170-odd volumes of notebooks repose in Houghton Library)--and so much more. Above all he strove to be a 20th-century Periclean Hellene; and his whole life was indeed a paragon of the ancient Greek arete...