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...Metcalf suggested that the University combine the two catalogues on the first floor permitting 2,000,000 duplicate cards to be thrown away...
Strong faculty opposition has delayed the merging of the two Widener card catalogues for at least one year and perhaps killed Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf's plan permanently, it was learned yesterday...
...This, Metcalf said, should cost $110,000 and save $12,000 annually. Further, having only one catalogue would mean far greater convenience for scholars who now have to run up and downstairs to cross-check the two catalogues...
Opponents of the merger say that Metcalf has underestimated the cost and overestimated the saving involved. Others say that the downstairs catalogue room is a far less picturesque place in which to look up books than the ornately-pillared upstairs catalogue room...
...chaos, however, one thing is sure. The Metcalf merger will be a great blow to the nation's security in the event of a general mobilization. Harvard's scholars will grow soft if deprived, of their daily interfloor chugging to cross-check catalogue references...