Word: fransworth
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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Occupying a central position in the Yard and dominating the Campus is the Widener Memorial Library. On the first floor are the Treasure Room, where the rarest collection belonging to the University are on exhibition, and the Fransworth Room, containing beautifully bound sets of standard authors, where no studying but only pleasure reading is permitted. On the mezzanine floor is a room containing photographs and mementos of all the University men who died in the Great War. Through this one reaches the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room, where his private library is kept. On the second floor is the Main...