Word: catalog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk will be situated in the southeast corner of the room, next to the door leading into the catalog room. The old U-shaped desk in the center of the room will be removed...
Bryant described the new desk as an efficiency measure to make the reference librarians more accessible to students using the main catalog...
Brandishing sharp No. 3 pencils, students from all fields will soon enroll in Economics 126, Accounting, the College's lonesome business course. Like most liberal arts colleges, Harvard doesn't want to stuff its catalog with courses to smooth each graduate's path to a six figure income. But in its effort to remain unsulied the University has created a difficult situation for students planning business and law careers. The single term of accounting is only enough to wade in the subject's principles. Except by taking a course outside the University, there is no way for the student...
...office moved around a good bit in those days (1304 Mass. Avenue in 1895, the Union basement in 1901, 14 Plympton St. in 1915), but wherever it went there was a Sanctum, a center of exuberance and conviviality. As FDR put it in his report for an early CRIMSON catalog, "There was much fear expressed that the new quarters (the Union) would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old Sanctum, and also that no punch nights could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved to be groundless...
Some industries will probably have their own recession, or "readjustment," just as the textile industry had a recession in booming 1952. There will be price cuts, and some have already begun. In its first 1953 catalog, Sears, Roebuck & Co. trimmed its prices an average of 9%. Said G.E.'s President Ralph Cordiner: "The chips are down. This year the weak sisters will fall by the way." Businessmen generally feel that 1953 will be a "hard sell year," notably in such items as refrigerators, radios and farm equipment, which show signs of saturating the market. To keep up sales, Interna...