Word: librarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Conn.; vice-president, James Lloyd Berrall '24 of Washington, D. C.; secretary, Ernest Frederic Knauth Jr. '24 of Brooklyn, N Y. At the same time the following officers were appointed: Manager, Trevanion Dallas Blair-Smith '24 of Englewood, N. J.; assistant manager, Dexter Selden Paine '25 of Brookline; librarian, Leicester Haydon Sherrill '26 of Philadelphia...
...chosen by the college authorities with the approval of a committee representing the donors. Schwarz, the first man selected for the honor, stands this year for the second time in the second group of scholars, and already holds an honorary Harvard College scholarship. Last year he was librarian of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...Langdell began the modern life of the School and of its library in 1870. Three steps were necessary and were taken at once. A permanent librarian was employed to prevent the loss of books: students were no longer supplied with free textbooks; and duplicates of reports and other books that were in frequent demand were supplied...
...very large collection of South American material, gathered by "the librarian of a sister institution," was purchased...
...this time, although the librarian boasted in his report that "The donations and importations since 1834 have been such as to enable the student to verify every citation which is made in Blackstone's Commentaries, and nearly complete the collection of European law, both British and Continental, from the earliest times down to the eighteenth century" the library was far from being complete. A writer in the "American Jurist" in 1841 said that though the departments of English and American law were nearly complete, "there is a great deal to be desired in some departments of general jurisprudence". There were...