ATTRACTIVE FEATURE OF WIDENER

The Council Room of the Widener Library, near they northwest corner of the building, has been and is still in the process of being converted into one of the most attractive rooms in the building. Amongst the furniture which adorns the room are five beautiful old mahogany book-cases which formerly stood in the bedroom of the late Harry Elkins Widener '07. Of these five cases, the one in the east corner of the room contains only those books which have been written by either active or retired members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who are at present alive. In the case in the north corner of the room are only those books which have been written by members of the Faculty who are no longer living.

The south case contains chiefly well-known publications by the Harvard University Press. Among the latter is the edition of the Harvard Historical Studies, which, at the present time, totals 23 volumes; the Harvard Economic Studies, composed, at present, of 14 volumes; the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, comprising four volume to date; the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, which, so far, includes 26 volumes; and the Harvard Studies in Education, contained, at present, in two volumes.

The case in the northwest corner of the room contains, among other volumes, the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory in 77 volumes to date; the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which is in its 30th volume; and the Harvard Theological Review, now in its ninth volume.

The southwest case is being reserved for copies of the original copies of the books of John Harvard's Library, which was destroyed by fire in 1764. Mr. A. C. Potter, Assistant Librarian, has undertaken the task of replacing the lost Harvard Collection, and as much of the new collection as possible will be placed in this southwest case of the Council Room.

The Library Council, composed of Professor A. C. Coolidge, chairman, Professor G. F. Moore, Professor G. L. Kittredge, Professor C. H. Haskins, Professor Theodore Lyman, Professor C. N. Greenough, and Dr. Thomas Barbour, holds its meetings in the Council Room, as do also the Syndics of the Harvard University Press.