Word: librarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bidding was determined. Miss Belle da Costa Greene, librarian of the J. P. Morgan Library† opened the contest with an offer of $50,000. Bids jumped at once by $5,000 each until William Evarts Benjamin, supposedly on behalf of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, called $85,000. Thereafter he had to compete only with Dr. Rosenbach. At $100,000 the sedate yet tense crowd cheered. Dr. Rosenbach offered $104,000. Mr. Benjamin covered him with $105,000. Then came "$106,000" from the Doctor. Mr. Benjamin kept silent...
...Princeton Reference Librarian, Malcolm Young, submits figures which taken at their face value prove Princeton undergraduates bookishly inclined. In addition to texts required in courses ten per cent of the students take out two books weekly, 40 per cent average one book a fortnight, and the remainder read sporadically but a respectable amount...
...building under construction for the Library of the Harvard Business School has been designed to take care of the collections of the Society, C. C. Eaton, Librarian of the Harvard Business Library, has been elected Librarian of The Business Historical Society. Plans are being completed for the consolidation of other collections, so that it is estimated that when the Baker Building is opened next fall there will be deposited nearly 400.000 bound volumes and nearly a million items of business records, periodicals, and other, library material, technically known as ephemera. The notable cooperation with other libraries, shown by the participation...
...library a ticklish problem. The passengers' smoking room has been found a poor place because the passengers inevitably borrow the books. While the lower gyro room, as the Scotchman said, is "way down, ye know". Resort is usually had to the working alleway although narrowness bothers here. The librarian has to be a man whose profane tasks are not too arduous and one for whom the printed page has a "slight glimmering of interest", sometimes a night steward, sometimes a ship's carpenter, or a baggage steward, or a master's clerk...
Included in the list for the following month is a new book by George Parker Winship '93, Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection, on printing. It is called "From Gutenberg to Plantin", and is a brief and fully illustrated history of this period in the art of printing. Dr. E. W. Taylor '88 has written a volume in which he gives an authoritative account of various efforts to utilize mental therapy. The book is called "Mental Elements in the Treatment of Disease...