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Club singles-men--1, W. Danaher, Blood Street Sculls, 19:12.13; 2, A. Kress, Yale; 3, T. Cattell, Union Boat Club...
Cultural trends in rare books are important to Ruth R. Rogers of the Kress Library of Business and Economics. Rogers pays special attention to German books of the 17th century for traces of anti-Semitism evident in the dealings of money-changers who cheated their Jewish customers by giving them worthless coins. Rogers also recommends the materials from the Bancroft Collection on the South Sea Bubble, which include posters, pamphlets, and books chronicling the speculative main which swept through England in the 1720's, when lots of financiers invested their money in tulips. "There's always something to be learned...
Bookstores abound in Harvard Square. But how many bookstores today sell hand printed, hand-bound books in the first or second edition? The Kress Library of Business and Economics, located in the Business School's Baker Library, preserves the fine art of printing and bookbinding...
...Kress Library contains 30,000 "treasured volumes, which represent the foundations of economic philosophy and business theory," Rodgers says. "Imagine carefully opening the 1776 first edition of Adam Smith's classic The Wealth of Nations or turning the fresh pages of David Hume's Political Discourses printed 230 years ago," the curator noted...
Like Houghton, the Kress Library is humidity controlled with special temperature gauges for the preservation of the Business School's rare books. Like Houghton, this library is one of the world's most famous, although it is seldom appreciated, and security is tight at Kress as well...