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...Committee of the John Barnard Associates, which will administer the exhibition of rare books owned by students to be shown in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library consists of three men. F. V. Field '27, Massachusetts 11, chairman, A. A. Houghton '28, Claverly '26, and J. S. Jennison '30, Standish E 41, will make up this committee, and any student wishing to exhibit some part of his library or rare books should communicate with one of these men as soon as possible so that they will be able to make out a list of the possible books and select...
From April 1 to the Spring vacation the Widener Treasure Room will be devoted to an exhibit of rare books owned by undergraduates. This exhibit is being administered by the John Barnard Associates, an organization formed last month in memory of John Barnard, 1700. When in the eighteenth century the college library burned down, this public spirited clergyman who was a resident of Marblehead contributed his entire collection of books to start the new library...
...often that a good deed is remembered two hundred years afterward. Those men who have formed a society of bibliophiles under the name of the John Barnard Associates have done an excellent and very fitting thing; for it was the Reverend Mr. Barnard, who, in the middle of the last century, replaced the old library which had been lost by fire with a new one of his own. The colleges in those days was not the prosperous organization it is now, and such a gift meant as much then as would the gift of a new library today, should Widener...
...such benefactors, past and present, deserve a better memorial than the presence of an occasional dusty book on the more esoteric shelves of Widener; the new association, besides bringing mutual pleasure to the members, is thus making a graceful, if tardy, acknowledgment of Harvard's debt to John Barnard...
...minister at Marblehead, John Barnard kept in constant touch with the College, and was much interested in its growth. His opportunity to aid it in a truly significant manner, came about the middle of the eighteenth century, with the burning of the college Library. He immediately gave his entire collection of books for the founding of a new library. Even today, wanderers in the stacks run upon books bearing a John Barnard book-plate...