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Granting the wisdom in luring Buck back again to the administration, some may be surprised by the nature of his new job. In the retiring librarian, the University has had a professional, a man who, during his years as Director, became nationally respected as an administrator. Mr. Metcalf's retirement left the administration with a major appointment on its hands. Yet few will quarrel with the new choice...
...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...
...them, Donald C. Williams, professor of Philosophy, indicated that he thought the Lamont experiment a success. The number of persons using the library during its extended hours last spring, estimated at between 688 and the minimum of 113 cited by Metcalf, "seems like a very substantial number of students," he said...
...Metcalf himself, who is chairman of the Faculty committee, left on a week's vacation yesterday and was unavailable for comment...
...financial support for last spring's experiment came, according to Newman, from a special fund made up of library fines. Asked what would happen to the fund this year if the experiment were not continued, Newman replied: "Metcalf would probably have trouble finding a use for the money...