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...from the report of Harvard's librarian how serious he considers the university's need of more funds for its library. The splendid new Widener Memorial building scarcely prepares one's mind for a cry of poverty. And the great size of Harvard's collection, now numbering nearly two million books and pamphlets, does not suggest deficiency. Later reflection, however, calls to mind how serious must be the demands which arise from this very fact of the collection's size. The Widener Library has given suitable housing to the main store of Harvard's books, but there remain the detached...
...annual report of the University Library indicates rapid growth under increasing difficulties. More than forty thousand volumes have been added to its shelves, swelling the total to nearly two million and placing it among the greatest collections of books in the world. Yet with this encouraging progress there has not come the corresponding increase of dependable resources which are necessary in carrying forward the work from year to year...
...report of Professor Coolidge, director of the University Library and chairman of the Council of the College Library, shows that the Library has reached a total of nearly two million volumes and pamphlets. As Professor Coolidge's report reads: "It now ranks both in size and in quality among the greatest collections of books in the world, though its constituent parts are of uneven strength and all present unlimited possibilities of improvement." The principle need seems to be satisfactory endowment, which will not make the departments dependent on the varying gifts of each year. For the most part the housing...
...such an expenditure at such a time. Though not in any way doubting the desirability of this publication under ordinary conditions, it seems to us that the money usually expended in this way could be put to a more beneficial use. While Harvard graduates are raising a ten million dollar endowment; while the committees for war relief in Belgium, Poland, Serbia and Armenia are in pressing need of funds; while the American Ambulance, of particular interest to Harvard men, could make use of unlimited financial aid; have we, in the face of such needs, the right to spend any amount...
...problem confronting this country would not be that of getting men or uniforms, or rifles or machine guns. Our industries are today better organized for the production of equipment and munitions than they have been for fifty years. The most acute problem would be that of supplying a half-million men with the necessary officers. Nearly 30,000 of these would be needed and needed immediately, for without officers even the rudiments of drill and organization cannot be carried through. Right there, as the experience of other countries in the war has shown, would be our most stupendous problem. Even...