Word: lane
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Upon William's death in 1908, C. Chester Lane '04 took over, to eventually become the first director of the University Press. Formerly with the textbook publishing firm of Ginn and Co., Lane saw that the University was sending a considerable amount of material to outside publishing houses. The Economics and History Departments were regularly putting out their "Studies," and the "Oriental Series" was an established publication...
Yale, Princeton and Chicago already had publishing houses to take care of the increasing number of scholarly manuscripts that professors felt should see print. So, on January 13, 1913, the Corporation voted to establish the Harvard University Press as a publishing outlet for the University. Lane was head of the organization that included the Printing Office--still the special province of Adam Wilson...
...Lane's group, including publishing staff and presses, had outgrown its scant University Hall quarters, so when Widener opened for business, the Press took the book-drained space in Randall Hall, which is still the site of the Printing Office. Then, in July, 1932, the Press moved to Quincy Street, and finally to its present quarters on Francis Street...
...section of the waterway, no freight at all has moved on the canal, and the placid ditch, its tree-grown canal path, its long strip of riverside woodland, are frequented only by occasional hikers, naturalists or canoeists. Recently the Government began planning construction of a modern, two-lane automobile highway to open the area and its delightful vistas to the general public. But last week, when the Washington Post ran an editorial commending the parkway scheme, it received a sharp and moving dissent. Its author: woods-wise, mountain-loving Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas...
...Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd,* the University of Maryland's football coach (1913-34) and president (1936-53), has organized a 100-man campaign executive committee headed by former Governor Preston Lane...