June 17, 1935
To Charles K. Burdick, Dean Cornell Law School Ithaca, Hew York Sir: I have the honor to submit for your considera tion the annual report of the Cornell Law Library for the year ending June 17, 1935. This year the Library suffered a tremendous loss in the passing of Mr. Willever, who had been librarian for twenty—four years.
He was largely responsible for the
reputation and importance this Library now has.
Ho greater
tribute can be paid Mr. Willever than is expressed in the words of a former student assistant: “He taught me in hie unassuming way that the ‘life beautiful* is a prize not for the keen, the shrewd and the overbearing, but rather for the simple, kindly folks who do their daily tasks honestly and humbly.
All of us cannot be what the world
calls great, but most of us can be great to our intimates in leaving the stamp of a human and a humane outlook upon them.
Such was Mr. Will-
over* s contribution to life." During the year, 2,309 volumes have been access