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Excerpt from Opening of the Bechstein Germanic Library: Addresses, University of Pennsylvania, March 21, 1896
It is my happy lot, this afternoon, not to make an address, but to introduce the Chairman of the meeting, Mr. Rosengarten, who will take charge of the proceedings. But before doing so, I may be allowed to say a few words.
We are indebted for the Bechstein Library of Germanic languages and literature not only to the liberality of the contributors; but, it is reasonable to say, to the interest and energy of Professor Learned. After he had been called from Johns Hopkins University to the Chair made vacant by the death of Dr. Seidensticker, and before he had entered upon his duties, Professor Learned was upon the alert to secure adequate library facilities. It was his earnestness and interest which at the start drove us to undertake the purchase of this library.
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