Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Reading Period is putting a pressure on the Library and on the nerves of the student body which serves to bring out the defects contained in both these systems. If there is any weakness in the supplies at the library, or even in its aid, it cannot hope to escape detection under the present conditions. If, on the other hand, any student has not been careful of his diet or has not slept sufficiently, the fact is sure to become appareat the minute he finds himself rebuffed by any of the minor defects of the library...
...month's illness seems almost an event of some past year, a happening around which the shadows have already closed. For to those readers who have come under the spell of "Far from the Madding Crowd," "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," and "The Return of the Native" their author cannot be reconciled with contemporary life and manners. The halo of fame hovering about his name is as venerable as it might well be with a hundred years or so behind it, and the gathering of this shy, shrinking, self-effacing little man to his fathers comes almost as an aftermath...
...undergraduate is possibly less subject to the complex than are his elders: to him Friday usually means fish and the beginning of a weekend. But even he is likely to become uneasy on gazing at the current date-line. Even he cannot throw off the accumulated weight of ages: the most unlucky of days, coincidental with the most unlucky of numbers--one's callow self-confidence wavers...
...conscientiousness altogether in excess of the results achieved, the autocratic or powers that be maintain throughout the library a temperature of seventy eight degrees Fahrenheit. This every one knows is ten degrees more than the maximum for comforable living. Why it is considered permissible in the library I cannot imagine. Yet the fact remains...
...warn the unsuspecting, however; it is not. I speak from personal experience. He who opens a window is an enemy of society. Not only will the window be closed at once, but the unfortunate person who opened it will have incurred the lasting enmity of his fellows. We cannot hope to open a window in Widener. What we can do is to see that the ventilating system, installed at great cost when the building was erected, but never used for lack of funds, is put into operation at once. Connections can easily be made with the Reading Room, if indeed...