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...suggestion of Professor Norton in regard to a memorial to Phillips Brooks in the form of a library and a reading room for Harvard is worth serious consideration, for such a memorial would be of infinitesimal value to the University. The need of a new library and a reading room is a crying one, growing more and more obvious every year and long ago reaching a point where some action must be taken. Gove Hall has long since ceased to be satisfactory; it is built upon a poor model and is too small to hold our increasing library, while...
There is at this moment one object of supreme interest to Harvard University fitted to be such a memorial of him, and one need, beyond all others, the supply of which would be a benefit to secure perpetual gratitude...
...need is of a proper building for the library and reading-room, which must form a part of it. It would be difficult to exaggerate the insufficiency of the present building for the proper arrangement and care of the constantly increasing store of books which already exceed its capacity, as well as the unfitness of the accommodations which it affords to the constantly increasing number of students that frequent...
...committee of the faculty has been engaged for some time in the attempt to devise the proper measures to be taken for obtaining the means required to supply this indispensable need. The least sum which would suffice...
...educational classes are well under way although there is still need of an instructor in penmanship and of a man who will give a course in political economy on Saturday evenings. Volunteers for these two courses will please send their names to 32 Hollis...