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QEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTON, a Trustee and ihe Treasurer of Barnard College since its opening in J 889, died on July 1st, 1936. He was born at Walpole, Massachusetts, on July 15th, 1853. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1876 and studied at the Harvard Law School. In 1882 he became a member ol the firm of Ginn and Company, and for many years before his death was the head of that impor- tant publishing house. Mr. Plimpton was widely known for his educational, philanthropic and intellectual interests. Besides his long connection with Barnard Col- lege, he was the President ol the Board of Trustees of Amherst College, and a member of the boards of Constantinople College, the Union Theolog- ical Seminary and other institutions. He had several honorary degrees and was a member of many learned societies. He was famous as a collector of paintings and of books. His library was among the most valuable and unusual in the land. His collec tion of books and manuscripts dealing with the history of education, especially in its earlier stages, was the most complete and extensive in the world: it contained every obtainable text-book issued since the birth of printing down to comparatively modern times. His lectures on Dante, Shakespeare and Chaucer were illustrated from his own library; and in two notable books, The Education of Shakespeare and The Education of Chaucer, he reproduced and commented on contemporary text-books and manuscripts from his own collections, several of which were not elsewhere available. Main Barnard students will remember the interesting talk that he gave in the winter of 1927-28 on books that were contemporary with Shakes- peare ' s youth, when with characteristic open-handedness, he allowed students to see, handle and examine horn books, early copy books, a volume by Erasmus with marginal notes in the hand of Melanchthon and other priceless treasures from his library. Barnard students and graduates know him as the only Treasurer that the College ever had; he was that for lorty-seven years. In the early years of the College, that often meant his assuming personal responsibility for its current expenses, until other friends of Barnard could interest outside aid. J hen also and later, it meant searching for and attracting endow- ment to Barnard, and in this pursuit he was indefatigable and successful, as he was in the lurthering of all good causes. Very few indeed are they to whom Barnard students and graduates owe as much as to Mr. Plimpton; and the many of us who knew him personally will also remember him as an unfailing friend. — William 7. Brewster.
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