John Edens Quotes

At the time the Lockwood Collection was donated... Charles Abbott, then the university's library director, called it 'a princely gift,' and 'the nucleus, around which may grow a new library, dedicated to learning and to the culture that it seeks to inspire.'

- John Edens

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