FORM BERLIN TO WIDENER

Whether or not one considers himself a "scholar in political economic or military history" the later addition to the War Library just be of unusual interest. What was going on the Berlin about mid-summer of 1914 and what went on thereafter is a question whose answer appeals to a man who knows the war only in part from personal experience, as most of us do. The War Library has now first hand evidence of some of Germany's proceedings. We all fell like looking into the packing cases just arrived.

Yet the real interest of such documents is of course for the scholar who can untangle and sort out the facts into a history of what did happen. The War Library is distinctly unusual feature of the University but it establishment was a natural addition to Widener. One of the reason why Harvard's library ranks at the top is that it concerned not only with musty documents of bygone times. Its policy of being concerned with the present as well as the past will undoubtedly make it responsible for some interesting additions to the literature of the near future.