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Keyes Metcalf took over in 1937 and soon realized that the Widener building would overflow within three years. What the university needed, he decided, was 1) a special library for undergraduates, 2) a new building for rare books and manuscripts, and 3) some sort of cooperative plan with other campuses for the storage of little-used books and the acquisition of new ones. As he steps out, Metcalf can reflect proudly that every one of these goals has been achieved...
Last week Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's men were hard at work on the third alternative. So far, Benson & Co. have had only middling success in selling surplus farm products. The overflow of agricultural oils (soybean and cottonseed) has been reduced from 1½ billion to 55 million lbs. since 1953, and overall dairy surpluses have fallen by a full 54% as a result of increased U.S. consumption and a giveaway program. But last week Iowa farmers were asked to reseal on their own farms some 50 million bushels of corn, deliverable this month to the Government...
First given in 1903, the lectures were named after Edwin L. Godkin, 19th century newspaperman and founder of "The Nation." They are normally given in Sanders Theatre, with accommodations for overflow crowds provided in Memorial Hall...
...relay system connecting Sanders, Memorial Hall and New Lecture Hall was completed this spring to prevent a reoccurrence of last fall's riot which developed when a large overflow crows was turned away from Arnold Toynbee's lecture in Sanders...
...enthusiasm unabated today by forty years of research and teaching, Wolfson works as nearly around the clock as he can in Widener B-45--a study crammed to utter confusion with books, pamphlets, and papers that fill up the ceiling-high shelves on three sides of the room, overflow on the mammoth desk in the middle, and encumber every available chair with piles of envelopes. At 68, Wolfson can still scramble happily through the debris to look for a book or climb perilously on laden chairs in search of an obscure reprint from the Harvard Theological Review. After a lifetime...