Memorial Volume to Prof. Norton

Last night a memorial volume was formally presented to Professor Charles Eliot Norton, with the following dedication, containing the names of 581 men who through their subscriptions made possible the purchase of his library for the University:

TO

CHARLES ELIOT NORTON

FROM

IIIS PUPILS, ASSOCIATES, AND FRIENDS

IN APPRECIATION

OF HIS SERVICES TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY

DURING MANY YEARS

IN ADMIRATION

OF HIS LIFE-LONG DEVOTION TO HIGH IDEALS

IN LETTERS, ART, AND CIVIC DUTY

IN GRATITUDE

FOR HIS HOSPITALITY, COUNSEL, FRIENDSHIP

INSPIRATION.

The names of some of the signers are: Henry L. Higginson, Horace Howard Farness, Charles S. Fairchild, William James, Charles J. Bonaparte, William Lawrence, A. Lawrence Lowell, Edward Robinson, George Lyman Kittredge, Arehibald Cary Coolidge, James Loeb, Ralph Emerson Forbes, L. B. R. Briggs, William Roscoe Thayer, Henry Schofield, Gardiner M. Lane, B. Apthorp Gould Fuller.

The volume was prepared with particular care after an Italian model of the fifteenth century, and is a very fine specimen of the bookbinders' art.