. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. orge Washington received his Splendidlibrary facilities are connected with the University. In addition to variousDepartment libraries the Brown University Library contains 140,000volumes, including the Harris Collection of American poetry, the largest ofits kind in the world, and the Wheaton collection of Rhode Island contents, which also include many works of art, have long overtaxed thecapacity of the attractive, Venetian Gothic build
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. orge Washington received his Splendidlibrary facilities are connected with the University. In addition to variousDepartment libraries the Brown University Library contains 140,000volumes, including the Harris Collection of American poetry, the largest ofits kind in the world, and the Wheaton collection of Rhode Island contents, which also include many works of art, have long overtaxed thecapacity of the attractive, Venetian Gothic building on Waterman Street andwill shortly be removed to a white marble home in the John Hay MemorialLibrary. As has recently been said by a French writer, it is probably due to BrownUniversity, more than toany other factor, thatProvidence with its greatindustries and the su-premacy of manufactur-ing life as the mainspringof its remarkable pros-perity, has not lost itsideals of culture and tra-dition and become merelya great over-grownfactory village. The Providence Pub-lic Library is famous formethods thathave beencopied extensively in 3j.
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