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OUR U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y Literature Place at d 0 °$tet^ ^ - i n t e r a c t i n g that? % hear H a t e d that another war, vaster than the one that went bef ore i t | *« A s the greatest war to date, will shortly put an end to modern culture. I J S I rVal v thought this matter out? T h e last war certainly did not ^ ^ ^ z ^ ^ f ^ ^ it, rather, and the outward damage has & * pa fed And the last general war was not relatively so disturbing as £ Napoleonic wars, which upset Europe off and on from 1798 till Waterloo wel nigh a generation later. Let us suppose, h o w e v e r that alien bombers shortly bombed the Harvard Library, or the library of Yale, but did not damage both or ruined both of these, but did not damage Brown, o r even wrecked the libraries in New York or Washington, but not the aforesaid libraries of Harvard Yale and Brown. Or suppose that all the libraries on our Atlantic coast were wrecked, or most of them, while the great universities of the Middle West and California went unscathed? Would civilization in America then be ruined!' While we talk about the place of libraries, think how they are placed in our own country. It would take more system than the Continental nations yet possess to ruin all each other's libraries, and after that the libraries at Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London, at Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, and other British universities, and then come over here to bomb all other libraries from Maine to Oregon and from Los Angeles to Durham and Chapel Hill. With the newer means of duplication, almost any library today can have a copy of any book or writing in the world. A moderate college library today is richer in book< than most of the great libraries in the day of Waterloo. Think merely of the difference between our Rutgers Library now and the old collection in kirkpatrick Chapel only forty years ago. The preservation of the library at Urbana, Illinois, if only that were saved out of a universal ruin, ivould save modern culture, if 3 some spiritual gifts were saved as well! From Journal of the Rutgers University Library December 1939.

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