Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Briggs has been connected with the College Library since 1886, with the exception of the years 1904 to 1909 when he was at the Brooklyn Library, and 1909 to 1915 when he was at Trinity College...
Superintendent of the reading room at Widener Library from 1896 to 1904, and assistant librarian in charge of reference and circulation from 1915 to 1936, Mr. Briggs became associate librarian in 1936. In the same year with the resignation of Alfred C. Potter '89 as librarian, he was appointed acting librarian...
Because of Mr. Briggs' long connection with the College Library he has become widely acquainted with students, alumni, faculty, and many visiting scholars from all parts of the world...
...During Mr. Briggs' years at Harvard the library has grown from 400,000 volumes to the largest university library in the world...
...Have you heard about Cynthia's wedding?" It was a rhetorical question. "Well, you know in the beginning they were going to be married during the first week of June, but Mr. Buttress, that's John's father, has to go back to Harvard for his twenty-fifth reunion then. The next date was the thirteenth, but John has to be at Harvard for his annual club dinner. By this time Cynthia was really impatient, so the twentieth was decided upon. Once more procrastination struck, as Dicky, that's John's brother, found he couldn't get down that...