Word: metcalfe
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...University Library which Buck will head is second in size only to the Library of Congress. President Pusey has emphasized often the importance of the library at Harvard and had been seeking another top administrator to succeed the present librarian, Keyes D. Metcalf, who will retire this summer...
...Paul Buck shares the high regard we all have felt for the imaginative library leadership of his friend, Keyes Metcalf. In his years as Provost and Dean of our central faculty, Mr. Buck introduced a series of major problems--ranging from General Education to Applied Science--which required the close cooperation of educator and librarian...
...Metcalf Here 17 Years...
...Metcalf, who reaches the administrative retirement age of 66 this spring, has been at the University for 17 years. He came to Harvard from the New York Public Library, where he had been Chief of the Reference Department. He had received the diploma of that library's School in 1914, and had worked there 24 years...
...Library Director, Metcalf devised "The Farmington Plan" for dividing responsibility for collecting new material among research libraries; he also supervised the building of Houghton Library in 1942 and Lamont...