Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reorganizing our shelves," the librarian announced, "to supply books for undergraduate courses which have a heavy enrollment...
Willard Daetsch '46 will serve as vice-president for the coming year, and Milton S. Heath '49 was chosen secretary of the group. Other new officers include Donald C. Reusch '46, member-at-large; Alexander Ogilby '48, manager; Daetsch, librarian; and retiring president E. Barr Peterson '47, graduate manager...
...11th Century; and a little from the 6th. Virtually all of the stone palimpsest was rendered forever illegible by the bombers. But the irreplaceable possessions of the library, its 1,200 MSS. and 40,000 records, were removed by the Hermann Göring Division. Monte Cassino's librarian and archivist, Don Mauro Inguanez, rescued the ashes of Shelley and the holographs of Keats's last miseries in Rome, smuggling them out among his personal papers in a German military...
...abbey, a group of U.S. sponsors had organized as the Friends of Monte Cassino. They included Swarthmore's ex-President Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Harvard's classicist Professor E. K. Rand, Princeton's medievalist Dr. E. A. Lowe (who had studied at Monte Cassino) and Morgan Librarian Dr. Belle da Costa Greene. They had issued a statement, conveying "to the Abbot and monks of Monte Cassino, now in exile, the expression of our sorrow and sympathy in this hour of tragedy and trial. We . . . ardently wish to contribute our mite to hasten the day of its reconstruction...
...Union and Boylston reading rooms, similar rules will prevail. However, books on the reserve list there may be taken out over the vacation if the special approval of the Boylston librarian is obtained...