When Jefferson's father died in 1757, he left a library of forty-two books, and that was regarded as pretty impressive. A library of four hundred books-the number that John Harvard left at his death-was considered so colossal that they named Harvard College after him. Over the course of his life, Harvard had acquired books at the rate of about twelve a year.
( Bill Bryson )
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