Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, club life saps much of the Union's life blood. Unfortunately again, the Union is not too favorably located: we have to walk over a lofty hill to reach it. Once there we must first show a Bursar's card and then a pink, or green, or purple ticket, and finally look sweetly on an inwardly kind, but outwardly fierce mouthed Cerberus at the door. This is not Service or even Friendship, but what are all these travails of the soul--they are but necessary red tape routine of a season just commencing--compared to the fact that once...
...order to obtain books, the borrower should look up in the Card Catalogue the book which he wants, to ascertain the call-number or shelf mark. He should then make out a slip for each book wanted; a buff colored slip if the book is for outside use, or a blue slip if it is for use in the Reading Room...
Books may ordinarily be kept out of the Library for a month, but certain new books much in demand are loaned only for a period of fourteen days or a week. Borrowers who do not return their books on time incur a fine of five cents a day, Postal card notices are sent as reminders of books overdue. Persistent neglect to return books or pay fines becomes a matter for College discipline...
...using the Card Catalogue, to find a certain book, the student should look under the name of the author, when known. If the author is not known the book may be found under the subject heading, or under the first work of the Title, when the title is distincive and easily remembered. Anonymous books are entered under the first word of the title, when is not an article. The publications of societies and institutions will be found under the name of the society or institution. Publications of the departments of the government--national, state, or city--are entered under...
...queerest elements. The amorous book, "L'academie des Philosophes sur l'amour"; belonged to what court lady? No lady at all but to the staid Montesquieu, that man whose works Professor Munro always recommends but which no undergraduate has ever read. Perhaps that wary looking volume, which the card describes as "Etat des troupes et des etats-major des places"--once wholted the stern glance of Richelieu. It was Madame de Pompadour's and she, upon receiving it from His Majesty, probably placed it among her perfumed volumes never to be opened. There is another book which I know must...