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Unfortunately, there is no immediate prospect of a special building for the Press, so that the plant in the basement of University Hall will have to be extended to occupy the rest of the basement. It is not intended that this shall be a commercial publishing establishment, as the University Presses of Yale and Chicago are tending to become, but rather a centre of dissemination for scholarly works...
This publishing activity is due mainly to the efforts of Mr. C. C. Lane '04, the Publication Agent. When Mr. Lane was appointed to the office five years ago, nothing was printed here except official departmental pamphlets, catalogues, examinations and various reports. The establishment of the Press means that this business which has been carried on practically without capital, and therefore in a very limited way and with imperfect means, will now have a substantial working capital...
...establishment of the Harvard University Press recalls the fact that the first printing press in America, north of Mexico, and for many years the only one in British America, was set up at Harvard College in 1639. It was the gift of Joseph Glover and "some gentlemen of Amsterdam," and was set up by Stephen Daye, the printer who had been brought over for the purpose by Glover. President Dunster married Mrs. Glover, and the press was set up in his house, where it remained until...
...given up, and for sixty years Harvard's printing was let out to commercial printers. Then another firm was started, from which is descended the so-called "University Press" which, however, has no official connection with the University. About twenty-five years ago, the University started a press of its own in Dane Hall, and later moved it to its present location in University Hall...
...University Press is modelled after those of Cambridge and Oxford Universities. They were established early in the sixteenth century and because of the excellence of the work done were granted the monopoly on the publishing of the Bible in England. Chiefly as a result of this source of income, they maintain themselves without a large endowment fund, and are able to publish a large number of books annually