Ticknor Library at Harvard

The new library of Romance and Germanic languages and literatures at Harvard University has been named for George Ticknor, Class of 1807, one of the greatest scholars ever graduated from Dartmouth. President Pusey of Harvard in his report for 1958-59, recently distributed, writes as follows:

"The departmental libraries of Romance and Germanic Languages and Literatures have also been housed in this building in a new library named for George Ticknor (1791 " 1871). One of the first individuals to teach at Harvard after study in a German university in the early nineteenth century, Ticknor was Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures and Professor of Belles Lettres from 1817 to 1835. He deserves to be remembered here, not only as America's first eminent historian of Spanish Literature, but also because, as an early faculty spokesman for curricular reform, he was a pioneer in the movement which was in time to raise Harvard from her early condition as a small provincial college built on a British model to her present stature as a mature modern university."