Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little time or money would be required for the institution of a receptacle for returned books. If placed near the ground level, much after the fashion of the arrangement at Boylston, it would save a great many unnecessary steps, and would make it possible to return books late at night instead of early in the morning. To prevent damage to the books thus returned, a slightly inclined chute--similar to those now in use at Columbia University--might be provided. Since a delivery system is neither intricate nor expensive there should be no serious objection to its immediate installation...
...hundred rare Chinese books, salvaged from the war torn areas of central and eastern China are now resting safely in a fireproof room in the cellar of Boylston Library, after a year and a half of work in China by Dr. A. Kaiming Chin, head librarian of the Harvard Yenching Institute...
Harvard's Yenching library, under the control of Dr. Chin, who has been its head since 1927, has grown from a single room in Widener Library containing only 4,000 volumes to a collection of 160,000 books covering the entire basement of Boylston. There the new additions, piled ceiling-high in the department's rare book vault, have not yet been unpacked since they arrived only two months...
There is a lighting system in Boylston Reading Room which is only equalled by Widener in the amount of eye-strain and glare it produces...
...calculated simplicity of Memorial Church. Then Vag introduces her to his Yardling friends, Goo-Goo the pigeon and Grumpy the squirrel. They accept her, so she "belongs." Vag is pleased at their approval. But when Goo-Goo makes it plain that he must get back to the missus atop Boylston, Vag and she amble down to the House for a tete-a-tete luncheon, pleasantly, interrupted just often enough by Vag's friends. And, as she sips the last of her coffee, Vag fingers the two pink pasteboards in his pocket...