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...annual report of the president, the statement of the affairs of the library merits special attention. The library is perhaps the best managed institution in Cambridge, and most graduates and undergraduates feel a particular pride and interest in it. In spite of the absence of Mr. Justin Winsor the work performed at the library last year showed the usual advance in amount and efficiency. The accessions were larger than in any year before except in 1888; the number of users of books was larger than last year by 192. But the time is very near at hand when it will...
...Justin Winsor has an interesting letter in this week's issue of the Nation on "English Views of the Copyright...
...Winsor's last letter from London to the Nation treats of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the old Puritan college where John Harvard took his degree. All traces of the college buildings as they stood in John Harvard's day have disappeared with the exception of one of the old outer walls. The green quadrangle seemed to call for a Statue of John Harvard such as now stands on the Delta. All that Emmanuel College has in the way of an effigy of Harvard is a stained glass figure in one of the refectory windows. This compares very poorly in dignity with...
...often happens that lectures at Emmanuel College are delivered in the dining hall before the tables are set for dinner. It was here under the stained glass figure of John Harvard that Mr. Winsor heard a lecture from the historian, Professor Creighton. At one of these lectures Mr. Winsor met a recent graduate of the Harvard Annex who spoke very highly of the work done in history at Emmanuel by Professor Creighton, and also spoke very warmly of the work of Professor Hart at the "Annex...
...Justin Winsor's letters to the Nation have been of a good deal of interest to general readers and especially students. It is a matter of pride for the University that the Librarian is being shown attention as a scholar and the representative of Harvard...