Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Viviani was escorted by President Lowell to the Widener Library, where a reception committee consisting of Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, W. C. Lane '81, the librarian; Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, Professor W. E. Hocking '01, and E. J. Wendell, member of the Board of Overseers, were waiting to greet him. He was taken first into the Memorial Room, where the rare books and medals of Harry Elkins Widener '07 are kept; then to the reading room, and finally into the stacks. He expressed his admiration at the size and beauty of the structure. After this, M. Viviani left...
These reports will include those of the president, C. A. Coolidge '17; P. M. Cabot '18, treasurer; J. D. Parson '17, librarian; W. W. Wobster '17, Christian Association; J. P. Thurber '17, St. Paul's Society; C. E. Coleman '17, Catholic Club; W. B. Beale '18, chairman of the Social Service Committee; F. C. Wilson '17, chairman of the Harvard Mission Student Committee; W. J. R. Taylor '17, chairman of the Chapel Committee; E. C. Kemble 4G, Graduate Schools Society secretary; A. E. Case 3L, Law School Society secretary, and R. M. Atwater 3M, secretary of the Medical School Committee...
...mildly shocking to discover from the report of Harvard's librarian how serious he considers the university's need of more funds for its library. The splendid new Widener Memorial building scarcely prepares one's mind for a cry of poverty. And the great size of Harvard's collection, now numbering nearly two million books and pamphlets, does not suggest deficiency. Later reflection, however, calls to mind how serious must be the demands which arise from this very fact of the collection's size. The Widener Library has given suitable housing to the main store of Harvard's books...
...principal need for the future is an adequate endowment fund. Under the present status the librarian must count upon generous friends of the University for the annual income. Due to the varying amounts of the gifts, it is impossible for the librarian to estimate his budget accurately for the ensuing year...
...judges of the contest will be the following: the Reverend W. H. Van Allen, rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston; Mr. J. M. Chappelle, editor of the National Magazine; Mr. Otto Fleischner, librarian of the Boston Public Library; Mr. E. S. Krandon, of the Boston Transcript; and the Honorable Wendell Rockwood, mayor of Cambridge...