WIDENER POETRY ROOM BUILDS NEW ADDITION

An addition to Widener Library, to be used in conjunction with the Poetry Room is to be begun in the near future, according to word received yesterday from library officials.

The new room, the gift of Harry Harkness Flagler, nephew of Edward Harkness, and Standard Oil executive, is expected to care for the large overflow of poetry material now in the library, and also to provide a place in which recordings of the works of modern poets can be heard without disturbing those wanting to read.

When Flagler donated the money in 1931 for the construction of a section of Widener to be devoted entirely to verse, he did so with the understanding that when the University saw fit to vacate the adjoining room, it would be added to the Poetry Room.