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...meeting of the Library staff in Gore Hall Saturday morning, Nov. 6, a committee was appointed to draw up resolutions on the death of Justin Winsor, late Librarian of Harvard University. It was voted that an engrossed copy of the resolutions be put on file in the Library records, and that another copy, signed by all the members of the staff, be sent to Mrs. Winsor. The resolutions as reported by the committee are as follows...
...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...
...recommendation of the committee which submitted the resolution, it was voted, that, in order that the memory of Dr. Winsor's life and work may be brought before the members of this club in a more fitting manner than is possible today, the Executive Committee be requested to provide that a suitable memorial paper may be presented at the next meeting of the club...
...last meeting of the Harvard Memorial Society, Professor Charles Eliot Norton was elected president, to succeed Dr. Justin Winsor...
Whereas, in the death of our late President, Dr. Justin Winsor, the Harvard Memorial Society has suffered an irreparable loss, therefore...