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For over three decades, Sadie Kent reigned as matriarch of Southeast’s library. As many students and faculty suspected, it was actually Miss Kent’s library, not the university’s. “Some remember her as an overbearing Army general,” professor Harold Grauel observed, “who acted as if every book and every piece of furniture in the library were like rare jewels to be guarded with her life.”
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