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>> SPEAKER: So welcome to Harry
Elkins Widener Memorial Library.

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Now, this library has
a fun story, so I'm

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going to monologue for a little bit.

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Once upon a time, there was this man
Harry Widener, who graduated in 1907.

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>> Now Widener loved books.

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He absolutely loved them.

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So, as a graduation present, him
and his mom went on a journey

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to Europe to go on a rare book hunt.

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And they found all sorts of
first edition tomes and novels.

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And they were so
successful, they decided

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to travel back in style in this
fun little ship called the Titanic.

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>> So what happened was, Harry and his mom
supposedly had gotten onto a lifeboat.

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But, when Harry realized that he
had left his books on the ship,

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he supposedly jumped back on
and was never seen from again.

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>> So his mother was so devastated
at the loss of her son

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that she decided to have a library
built to commemorate his love of books.

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So that's why we have
Widener Library today.

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But there's a couple interesting
things you may or may not

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know about Widener Library.

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>> Now, this is interesting, because
Harvard's gotten a lot bigger

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since the Titanic sank.

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So what did they do when they
got lots and lots of books?

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In fact, they dug downward.

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>> If you look right behind me,
you see all of that grass.

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In fact, below that is
60 miles of shelving.

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The library goes down four floors.

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>> It's an absolutely incredible space.

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But what's really relevant is that
also located in Widener Library

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is the site of the Hauser Studio,
recently completed this past January.

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Now, what is the Hauser Studio?

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You may know it as actually
where CS50 Live is shot.

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