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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the library staff is divided on the issue; William A. Jackson, director of Houghton, spoke against the merger at the faculty meetings. Others leaders of the opposition include Harry T. Levin '32, Professor of English, and Sterling Dow '26, Hudson Professor of Archeology...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Scholars Revolt, Oppose Metcalf's Merger of Two Widener Catalogues | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

Provost Buck is the one who must decide whether or not to recommend the merger to the Corporation, and he is holding a compromise meeting between the warring parties next month, searching for an answer to the problem...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Scholars Revolt, Oppose Metcalf's Merger of Two Widener Catalogues | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

Reasons for backing the merger include the following: the new charging desk would save steps for people taking out books, the space now occupied by the public catalogue could be used for other purposes, and the annual saving with consolidation would be $12,000 annually...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Scholars Revolt, Oppose Metcalf's Merger of Two Widener Catalogues | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, in various countries around the world, the ecumenical idea was beginning to snowball. In some cases, actual organic unity proved possible. Since 1900, some 30 U.S. denominations have merged into a third as many-notably the Northern and Southern Methodists and the Methodist Protestant Church, whose merger in 1939 made the Methodist Church the largest (currently 8,900,000 members) united Protestant church in the U.S. But the two most ambitious experiments in union took place in other lands. In 1925 Canada's Methodists, Congregationalists and most Presbyterians merged to form the United Church of Canada (membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church & the Churches | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

More than a year ago the Harvard Network proposed a complete merger, but the Annex station felt that this would mean the subordination of WRRB to the larger network...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Station Ends Tie With WHRB Group | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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