Emphasizing the personal background in the career of the late George Edward Woodberry '77, L. V. Ledoux, president of the Woodberry Society, addressed the group which meet last night at the official opening of the new Poetry Room at Widener Library. The room, which has just been completed under the gift of $50,000 from Harry Harkness Flagler, of Milbrook, New Jersey, had previously been opened to the private view of a few intimate friends of Amy Lowell, Morris Gray '77, and Woodberry, to each of whom it will serve as a memorial.

Ledoux, who studied under Woodberry at Columbia, as did the donor of the room, has written a book on Japan, and in addition to his interest in poetry is prominent as a geologist. His lecture was given under the Morris Gray fund, being the last of the year's talks to be given in that connection. The speaker went on to illustrate the enthusiasm with which Woodberry inspired his pupils, and the devotion with which he followed their literary careers, by reading several of the letters which the well-known poet and critic wrote to young men on the threshold of a literary life. He ended by stating that "nothing could have pleased Woodberry more than to have had such a room as this."

George Herbert Palmer '64, well known for his works on philosophy, and a former Harvard professor, who was Woodberry's roommate at college, attended the tea which was held yesterday afternoon at the preliminary opening of the Poetry Room, and gave a number of books as a valuable addition to the new library. The handsome mahogany tables were decorated with flowers given by Mrs. Flagler, Miss Katharine Loring, of Beverly, and by Mrs. G. A. Sawyer, widow of a former member of the Class of 1877.