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Who was the Harvard undergraduate who famously was stunned to realize that he couldn't read all the books in the library?
100 +/- years ago, an undergraduate, later a celebrated man of letters, came to Harvard and was stunned to realize that he couldn't read all the books in the library. Do you know who this was?
Last Updated: Jan 12, 2011 | 325 Views
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I believe you are referring to Thomas Wolfe who was a graduate student at Harvard, receiving a master's degree in 1922. I have not been able to track down a definite reference, but Professor Richard Marius in his essay On Working in Widener, indicates that in an interview, Wolfe expressed the desire to read every book in Widener, and numerous secondary sources describe his voracious appetite for reading and his love of Widener.
