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...Hemingway novel would gain admittance to the Widener Library stacks only if it were about the University or Cambridge, or presented as a gift "We," said Keyes De Witt Metcalf, University librarian, in an interview yesterday, "are not interested in buying new fiction, except novels that deal with Harvard. Cambridge, or Boston--novels that would be different if they dealt with other cities...
...required meeting for all new students at New Lecture Hall at 9 o'clock. Monday, A. Chester Hanford, Dean of the College, Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen and Chairman of the Board of Freshman Advisors, and Keyes Metcalf, Director of University Library, will give the novice Harvard man information on the choice of studies, use of the library and other subjects that will help to a rapid orientation in the life of the University...
Said Athletic Director T. Nelson Metcalf: "Our membership obviously was unfair to teams that did not encounter...
...production's chief flaw was the lack of training in the soloists. Although Soprano Irma Cooper had a beautiful tone, she lost control when singing either loudly or high. Less noticeable in Eilen Repp, contralto, and Harold Haugh, tenor, the lack of control again appeared in Bass John Metcalf. His usual clarity deserted him almost completely during the intricate chromatics of the aria, "Why do the nations so furiously rage together...
...position of Keyes D. Metcalf, present director of Harvard's collection of almost 5,000,000 books and pamphlets, can be compared in name only to the job held by Solomon Stoddard, the first librarian, who in 1667 had charge of "a library and books then valued at 400lbs." In fact it was not until Gore Hall, fireproof extensions and all, was razed to make way for Widener that the job called for a tactician and administrator rather than a pioneer...