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...years following the founding of the first U. S. university (Harvard, 1636) the education of young women was left to the "female" institutions whose courses were comparable to those offered by academic and secondary schools today. Higher education was not for women. Neither was co-education until Oberlin College, on Sep. 6, 1837, admitted four women for a regular college course...
...case, Harvardians can be assured that their book problems will be in the hands of a capable man. For Mr. Metcalf has worked his way from the ground up in the library profession. A graduate of Oberlin College in 1911, he took his diploma from the Library School of the New York Public Library...
Beginning his library work as a page and student assistant in the Oberlin College library, Mr. Metcalf was made Executive Assistant in 1912 and Acting Librarian and Instructor in Bibliography in 1916. He was assistant in the main reading room of the New York Public Library in 1913, Chief of Stacks 1913-16 and 1917-18, Chief of the Order Division 1919, Executive Assistant, Office of the Director, 1919-27, and Chief of the Preparation Division 1927-29. He has been Chief of the Reference Division since...
...Robert Pierpont Blake announced that he was turning over his job as director to Keyes Metcalf, Chief of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library. Lean, reserved, thoroughly professional Librarian Metcalf, 47, who will also serve as college librarian, began his career as a page in the Oberlin College Library and graduated in 1914 from the New York Public Library training school. Broad, boy-faced Amateur Blake, 50, wants more time for Byzantine history...
...Tufts and the University of Michigan), new President Frederick Harold Stinchfield of the American Bar Association (Bowdoin and Bates), retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke (Bucknell and Columbia), RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones (Temple and New York University), John Gilbert Winant, onetime chairman of the Social Security Board (Oberlin and Knox). G-Man John Edgar Hoover accepted an Sc.D. from Kalamazoo College and an LL.D. from Westminster College (Fulton...