Word: farnsworth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...found the Memorial Room, where the Harry Elkins Widener Collection is kept; book lovers may, upon application to the attendant, inspect the rarer volumes. Outside the Memorial Room are tablets holding the pictures of all the members of the University who lost their lives in the Great War. The Farnsworth Room, situated to the right of the main entrance, is a memorial room containing a splendid collection of standard authors. This room is intended only for pleasure reading and studying is not permitted. On the top floor there are a number of special, smaller libraries. The most notable of these...
Either through selfish carelessness or dishonesty the unusual privileges of the Farnsworth Room in the Widener Library are being abused. The unfortunate side of it is that this tendency is increasing as time goes on. The first year only one book was lost. Thus far this year more books have disappeared than during the preceding two years together. It ought to be understood by this time that "The books of the Farnsworth Room are to be used in the room only. They are not to be borrowed or taken away...
...only explanation of the growing misuse of the room is that people do not know or are beginning to forget that the Farnsworth Room is a memorial, as the bookplate indicates, and should be sacred from desecration. It is inconceivable that any college man should wish to rob something which has been given as a monument for the whole University to enjoy...
...increase of such practice might with reason, lead to only one thing, the closing of the Farnsworth Room. The many may have to suffer for the crimes of the few. Let us hope that those who are thus abusing the privileges of the room will desist, and those who are glad to use the room legitimately will help bring the offenders to light...
...Farnsworth Room of Widener Library is to receive the original manuscript of the poem "I have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger '10, from his mother Mrs. Charles L. Seeger, of New York, as soon as it is bound. The poem was written by Alan Seeger while at the front. It was scrawled in pencil on both sides of a small piece of paper. The Farnsworth Room already has a small volume containing three of Seeger's poems printed by his French associates in memory of him and his comrades. The poems are "I have a Rendezvous with Death...