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...last but not least Mr. Tucker, and say to them: here is Harvard University, a poor sort of institution at best, but just now utterly ruined by the lamentable uncertainty as to the educational program which it is to adopt for the future; take it; take it as a gift, and do with it what you will, so long as you write no longer--would they then leap to the opportunity and reorganize us all, or would they become strangely silent, thinking much and saying nothing more...
When Evert Wendell died on August 27, 1917, in the hospital at Neuilly, France, he left his entire literary collection to the Library. The present instalment is the first advantage that has been taken of the gift. The collection, which still remains at the disposal of the University, is very extensive and valuable...
Those who joined in making the gift are Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, who gave Soldiers Field to the University; President Lowell, Andrew Carnegie, Eben S. Draper, James J. Storrow '85, George P. Gardner '77, Charles A. Stone A. M. '14, Edwin S. Webster, Mrs. Thomas B. Gannett, A. H. Bristow Draper, Francis L. Higginson '00, and the estates of Nathaniel Thayer '71 and James Stillman...
...maintain an adequate supply, the collection of hundreds of thousands of books will be necessary. The American Library Association is buying by the hundreds of thousands text-books and other serious books, for which there is enormous demand, but it is looking to the public to supply by gift the millions of volumes of lighter literature--fiction, poetry, travel, etc.--which our men must have...
...thousand volumes. One of the last wishes of Meeker, who was President of the CRIMSON while in College, was that if any thing happened to him while in France, his own library be given to the CRIMSON, and it is in accordance with this wish that the gift has been made...