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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...
...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...
Cladius Ralph Farnsworth...
Henry Weston Farnsworth...
...members of the University who have been killed in the war. Mr. W. C. Lane '81, president of the Memorial Society, will make the formal presentation at the exercises in Sanders Theatre. The Roll will be established in the entrance of the Widener Library beside the entrance to the Farnsworth Room...