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Hofer, who founded the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, has been with the Houghton Library since its beginning. "Before the Houghton was built," he recalls, "the rare books and manuscripts were being kept in Widner Library, in stacks that were on the ground, or even below ground, where the heat was enormous. There wasn't any way to turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A. Jackson, curator of the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widner Library, the temperature would be a minimum...
...formal device of elections instead of building a political party, the only truly solid political institution. Will the Saigon junta ever allow the creation of a strong political party which can compete with the one organized party in South Vietnam, the NLF? Fox Butterfield, 5G Eric Widner...
...Winthrop House that America should "stop pulling chestnuts out of the fire for other nations and mind our own business." A mass meeting in April drew 700 people, and the newly-formed Undergraduate Neutrality Council demanded that all prowar memorials at Harvard be removed, including the Sargent murals Widner...
...result, the first detachment of Smith scholars will arrive in Cambridge today, equipped to spend the afternoon in Widner...
What of visiting scholars? "We don't want to handicap scholarship," Metcalf has maintained, "but the University is not in a position to operate a free public library." Yet the Yale PhD. candidate can use Widner for nothing. While the Harvard graduate student must pay $200 for almost identical privileges...