Word: librarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Petticoat government seems to be reaching international proportions. The case of Sir Eric Drummond, permanent secretary of the League of Nations, versus several million ladies illustrates the peaks to which it aspires It seems that Sir Eric., temporarily blind to the perilous consequences of the act, casually dismissed a librarian one morning whose contract had expired. That the sex of the official was feminine does not seem to have had nearly so much weight with the Secretary as with a whole hornet's nest of women's organizations. To them the deed was no less than a defiance...
...ladies seem, one might almost say wilfully, to overlook the fact that the librarian besides being feminine, was also American. And America, it will be remembered, is not a member of the League. Germany, on the other hand, has just joined and in reward for such good behaviour, richly deserves a plum or two. So argues Sir Eric. But telegrams beseeching and threatening continue to arrive...
...Librarian...
December 27 was the date set last night for the opening of the McKinlock Library at a meeting at which W. C. Lane '81, Librarian of Widener, presided. Dean C. N. Greenough '98, the residents of the Freshman dormitories, the head proctors, the Library Committee and the Dormitory Committees were present...
...Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster; and Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet, Librarian of the Church, resident at Rome, little known in England, some-times called "the most learned man in Christendom...