<p>Harvard’s Widener Library commemorates Harry Elkins Widener, 1907 Harvard graduate, a book collector and victim of the Titanic disaster. His mother donated millions to Harvard for the library to be built.
The false legend connected to the library is that as a condition of her bequest, Mrs. Widener requested a new requirement: all students had to to pass a swim test [snopes.com:</a> The Swim Test](<a href=“http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/swimtest.asp]snopes.com:”>The Swim Test | Snopes.com)</p>