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...librarian, Mr. Sibley, bought up great quantities of books with the extra cash. Although Sibley, called the "guarding genius of the library," aimed to please distinguished men like Longfellow and Lowell who frequented Gore, he disliked students who "couldn't tell a book from a ball." Walking about "with a light tread and quick movement for a heavy man," he guarded his growing collection well, admonishing readers about doubling over pages and careless turning of the leaves...
...Sibley soon had filled the library with his purchases. After President Eliot announced in 1877 that, "The want of space in Gore Hall is a more and more oppressing evil," the building got its first renovation and a new librarian, Mr. Justin Winsor, as well. He revolutionized the library by installing stacks, the first in America, and starting a more frugal and practical policy of book purchasing...
...brought the magazine more certainly than over into competition with leading commercial publications. His aim, he says, was to make the bulletin combine the news efficiency of Time with the literary flavor of The New Yorker, and his efforts toward that end were officially recognized in 1948 by the Sibley award committee...
...John L. Sibley, nineteenth century librarian of the College and author of the noted "Harvard Graduates," writes in his diary on July 28, 1874, ". . . quite a sharp controversy with some persons who are trying to dissuade the H's from letting their son come to Harvard University. The real but concealed objection being the religious sentiments there. Some people said that the Institution was sectarian and that its principle purpose was to make Unitarians, who were worse than Infidels as they do not come out and proclaim their creed...
Last fall, Bentinck-Smith edited "The Harvard Book," a collection of writings by alumni about the University. In 1948, two years after he became Editor of the Bulletin, the bi-weekly magazine won the Robert Sibley Award of the American Alumni Council for the best alumni publication...