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Will Harvard turn away prominent European professors and all scholars who enjoy open stacks? Will it begin to pour the cement for new southborough silos...
...they still do. This trip is for a class I'm taking. Didn't you hear? They've moved Widener Library. I've been taking my meals at the Southborough coffee shop...
...course, southborough is only a half-hour van ride away. And the library's depository department has guaranteed next-day delivery of requested books. But despite these preliminary assurances, there is a danger: By next spring--should the literary exodus continue unabated--Widener will have become an empty shell in the middle of the Yard. We will spend reading period travelling round Massachusetts in search of the books that have been missing all semester...
What is in Southborough, anyway? Won't Crimson backpacks seem out of place there? Wouldn't the town of Harvard, Mass. have been a more logical choice for the depository...
...main attractions in Southborough is the New England Regional Primate Research Center. Run by the Medical School, it is a Harvard institution built on Harvard land. Cheap land. When depository had to be built five years ago, Southborough was the natural choice. So gorillas and orangutans will be reading Greek literature. At least some of us will be getting good educations...