UNIVERSITY PRESS EXHIBITS REPRESENTATIVE SELECTIONS

Affording the public an opportunity for the first time to estimate the extent and variety of the work done by the University Press, representative selections from this organization will be on exhibit on the cases at the main entrance to Widener Library through December 21.

All the books, with only two or three exceptions, have been printed in the Press shop at Randall Hall. In point of number of new publications issued each year, the Press is one of the largest university presses in the country.

Displayed in Cases

Devoted to the most recent publications of the Press, the first show case in Widener will contain the three volume work "Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art" by Miss Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs '00, professor of Fine Arts.

Volumes designed by Bruce Rogers and D. B. Updike will be among the ten examples of finely printed works displayed in the second case.

An elaborate group shows the solution of difficult problems in printing, such as the layout of mathematical, musical, and tabular work. Another case, which is filled with publications issued during the last few years, is arranged to show the attractive jackets which the Press uses on its trade books.

Scholarly Works on Show

Other cases are devoted to samples from forty or more scholarly works, books about Harvard and the Loeb Classical Library. Showings of the great works of scholarship by many great Harvard teachers, George L. Kittredge, Charles H. Grandgent, E. K. Rand, George Foot Moore, Clifford H. Moore, Wilbur C. Abbot, George Santayana, and others are included.

The Press was established a separate department of the University by a vote of the Corporation on January 13, 1915. Its list of publications now comprises almost 2000 titles, among which is the Loeb Library, founded in 1910 by Dr. James Loeb '88 and bequeathed to the University in 1933.