Word: winsor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Resolved, That on the death of Justin Winsor, LL. D., Librarian of Harvard University, and President of the American Library Association, the Massachusetts Library Club desires to express its sense of the high value of Dr. Winsor's services to librarianship and to learning in America. Standing for many years at the head of his profession, he united in a remarkable degree the accurate and extended learning of the older generation of librarians with the administrative force and understanding of the needs of the hour, which are demanded of the modern librarian...
...last meeting of the Harvard Memorial Society, Professor Charles Eliot Norton was elected president, to succeed Dr. Justin Winsor...
Melvil Dewey, Secretary of the University of New York, representing the American Library Association, of which Dr. Winsor was the first president (1876) and president again for the current year...
...James L. Whitney, representing the Boston Public Library, of which Mr. Winsor was formerly librarian...
Whereas, in the death of our late President, Dr. Justin Winsor, the Harvard Memorial Society has suffered an irreparable loss, therefore...