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Several thousand people could be crowded into the bowels of Lamont in the event of an air raid, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library, told The Crimson last night. "It would be pretty stuffy," he admitted, "but it could be done...
...possibility of utilizing the libraries as bomb shelters was brought up Monday at a Cambridge council meeting when Councilman Edward A. Sullivan suggested negotiating with University officials for the use of Lamont and Widener. Metcalf said that he had not as yet been contacted...
...Metcalf said that Lamont's air conditioning system would not supply a large group of people for any length of time...
...acquisition of the volumes by Harvard was greeted with little fanfare in 1950. In his annual report for that year, when Harvard's libraries added a total of 30,000 books to their shelves, University Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf mentioned the Holocaust volumes only in passing...
...bigger coup that year was the donation of a valuable collection of 3,000 Jewish books and manuscripts that were previously owned by a European book collector and had been purchased wholesale after the war by a graduate of the College. The donated collection allowed Metcalf to boast that "the College Library now has one of the outstanding Hebrew collections in the United States...