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ON THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1913, THIS CORNERSTONE OF THE HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL LIBRARY WAS LAID BY MRS. GEORGE DUNTON WIDENER WHO GIVES THE BUILDING AS A MEMORIAL TO HER SON HARRY ELKINS WIDENER BORN JANUARY 3, 1885 GRADUATED FROM HARVARD COLLEGE IN 1907 LOST IN THE WRECK...
This wonderful library was bequeathed to Harvard, however, on the condition that it should be housed in a fire-proof building. With Gore Hall hopelessly inadequate, it seemed for a time as though the acceptance of the gift must be indefinitely postponed. But Mrs. Widener early in the summer notified...
Her offer was gratefully accepted; Mr. Horace Trumbauer, of Philadelphia, who had done much work for the Widener family, was sent for, and throughout the summer he worked on plans for the new structure. In September after a careful study of the ground, and frequent consultations with the University and...
The first floor is to contain the Widener collection and other rare books, the offices of the library, and stacks. On the second floor is the great main read-
Today for the second time, Harvard Commencement Week will be opened with a day set apart to Phi Beta Kappa exercises and the announcement of scholastic prizes--this year, a day made especially significant by the ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library...