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...Library, when it first occupied the new Widener Building. It contains over 12,000 volumes in twenty languages, on every subject concerned with anything that lives in the water. Among the books are many rare Americana and incunabula as well as a full representation of editions of Isaak Walton. Both collections are now preserved in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library...
Although the desired number of 80 men for the two new Norton-Harjes sections has not yet been fully obtained, the work of outfitting these two new sections is progressing satisfactorily, owing to the generosity of Robert Walton Goelet '02, who recently offered to finance the new units. Not enough men have enlisted so far for the ambulance driving, however, and members of the University are given an excellent chance to volunteer for this work and sail at once for France. The first 30 men will sail within a week, but these are only a part of the 80 needed...
...Botany Norris Folger Hall 4G, of Cambridge, Chemistry; Harold Calvin Marston Morse 3G, of Waterville, Me., in mathematics Hyder Edward Rollins 2G, of Asperment, Tex., in Modern Languages; Harold St. John 3G, of Philadelphia, Pa., in Botany Ray Ethan Torrey 2G, of North Leveret in Botany; Arthur Calvin Walton 2G, of Chicago, Ill., in Zoology; John Henry Williams 2G, of North Adams, in Economics...
Announcement has been made by Eliot Norton '85 from the New York office of the Ambulance Corps that the anonymous donor who has offered to provide all the money necessary to run two full sections, the estimated cost for which will be at least $250,000, is Robert Walton Goelet '02, of New York City. The two sections will contain 40 men each, and will sail for Europe as soon as possible. One condition only was made by Mr. Goelet, that the full number of 80 men be obtained in order to make the organization of the two sections...
There has also just been mounted in the Treasure Room the original parchment probate copy of Izaac Walton's will, dated August...