Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that the College assemble in Harvard Square with torchlight's and flares, and behind the band, march down Boylston Street to the Stadium, where the fight and pep speeches would be made. We would do well to take a leaf out of the book of Andover-Exeter tradition and pull the team along the route in an open wagon. The marchers should sing Harvard songs, and so arrange themselves along the route as to form a continuous alley of rooters for the team. The throwing of flowers before the team's wagon (a custom in use at California institutions...
...near future a group of Freshmen who have shown outstanding ability in English will be invited to sit in with the faculty committee which selects books. This committee, which has already held one meeting this year, is composed of Charles T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, George H. Chase '96, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, James B. Munn '12, Professor of English, Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen, Wilbur J. Bender '27, Assistant Dean of Harvard College, and Lyman H. Butterfield, Instructor in English...
Students in history, government, and economics borrow books from the Boylston Reading Room at an approximate rate of 1,500 to 2,000 books a month--adequate testimony of the worth of the overnight privilege, particularly for the man who is busy during the day and cannot get his reading done in the regular hours. But the value of the privilege is considerably lessened by the inconvenient conditions under which books must be returned. The Reading Room regulations require books to be checked in by nine, and yet the Room opens at just a quarter to the hour, with...
...announcement that Boylston Library will now be kept open on Sundays should over joy concentrators in History, Government or Economics. But of wider interest is the plan to make possible the return of reserved books between midnight and nine o'clock through a slot in a side door of the building. Both these reforms, coming in the prime of the academic year, call to mind once more the disheartening state of affairs in the main library of the University, and suggest to even the blandest observer a number of desirable changes...
...make the use of the Harvard Library a civilized convenience and not a painful duty for the undergraduate, it should be kept open from nine till eleven, every day, just as the House libraries are. In the matter of the overnight privilege for reserved books, the recent change at Boylston should be copied...