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Rh and concentrated effort to the subject are to be ranked with our best educators. A country which has testified to its appreciation of books, and all which they imply, by housing them in such a structure as the library of congress at Washington, has put its imprimatur on reading, study and research, and has made learning one of the shining marks at which its people cannot fail to aim. Mr. Putnam's native ability, his education, his energy and his devotion to his chosen calling make him the fitting director of so important an institution.

He has received the degree of Litt.D., from Bowdoin college, 1898. Columbia, Illinois and Wisconsin, have given him the degree of LL.D.

He was married to Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe, October 5, 1886. They had two children living in 1906.