Word: librarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pretty Mary Plummer. "It was the happiest time I have ever known, the only really happy one"?so wrote Clemenceau of three brief years he spent as a young man in New York, where he worked as a librarian, and at Stamford, Conn., where he taught young ladies French and how to ride horses, at Miss Aiken's boarding school...
Back to his studio went Photographer Steichen, sorely nettled. He labored over the second plate until he got a fine, enlarged print. He showed it around. Everybody liked it. Belle da Costa Greene, able Morgan librarian, pronounced it the greatest portrait of her boss which she had ever seen. When she showed it to him, he declared he had never seen it before, authorized her to buy it. She made a bid of $5,000 to famed pioneer Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Feb. 25), then editor of Camera Work, who owned the print. He refused. She then begged Photographer Steichen...
Perhaps the most interesting feature to the librarian is the bookstack. The lower stack is one unit of self-supporting steel structure from top to bottom. It is composed of vertical steel columns joined by horizontal beams which serve the purpose of supporting both the columns and the marble floors. The columns support the shelves, which are easily adjustable to hold different sizes of books...
...will lecture, as will Harland Bartholomew, prominent city planner. Alfred Bettman, Cincinnati lawyer and city planner; Charles W. Eliot, II, a member of the Capitol Park and Playground Commission in Washington; L. H. Weir, member of the Park, Playground, and Recreation Association of America; and Theodore K. Hubbard, honorary librarian of the American City Planning Institute, complete the list of prominent lecturers...
William McKee Dunn '30, of Detroit, Michigan, was elected vice-president, to succeed T. H. Cuihane, Jr., 'ocC. The promotion of Dunn to the post of vice-president leaves the position of librarian unfilled, but it is expected that someone will be chosen for that place in the near future...