to be remembered in connection with a great library, [but] I do not see how it is going to be brought about."

To enable the fulfillment of her son's wishes Eleanor Widener briefly considered funding an addition to Gore Hall, but soon determined to build instead a completely new and far larger library building"a perpetual memorial"to Harry Widener, housing not only his personal book collection but Harvard's general library as well,with room for growth.As Biel has written, "The [Harvard architects] committee's Beaux Arts