Word: libraryful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lucius was not one to let February 14th slip by unobserved, and as he emerged squinting from the library, his rubbers pioneered their way through the slush to the Crimson Specialty Shop.
The only other portion of the library accessible to the casual visitor is a series of rooms displaying samples from Houghton's unmatched theater collection. "Playbills, posters, prints, photographs, pamphlets, broadsides, sheet music, letters, documents, clippings"--everything pertaining to the theater in any form fills the theater section of the...
The nerve center of the library, at least as far as the casual observer is concerned, is the reading room on the first floor. It is locked and can only be entered if the curator at the front pushes a button which electronically releases the latch. Anyone presumably--student, faculty...
The Library, however, is basically a quiet sort of organization which is quite happy to see the scholar, but not particularly interested in seeing anyone else. And justifiably so, for its facilities are adequate, even superb, but only for the sort of literary aristocracy which has a need for primary...
The library, however, does not exist solely for these few or the many groups of these few which accumulate over the years. Scholars come to Houghton from all over the world to study the manuscripts and rare editions. Houghton represents a major center for rare books and ranks with the...