Word: center
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ends will be MacKinney and Devine; the tackles, Miller and Healey; the guards, Peabody and Puster; Ayres will be at center. In the backfield will be Spreyer at tailback, and Coleman at quarterback...
Raymond Dennett '36 will lead a discussion on peace and pacifiem at 7:30 o'clock Sunday at the Friends' Center, 5 Longfellow Part...
This leads up to the second and more important advantage of the Book Center. Its informality would breed friendship rather than contempt. Before long it would become the undergraduate center; debates, talks, and bull sessions would take place there. College students would be in fruitful contact with Harvard not two but twenty hours a day. No longer could George Ticknor's ghost say that "In Cambridge, the library is one of the last things thought and talked about...
...objected that a Book Center would merely double the House libraries. But among the average nine thousand books are found only course texts with few additional volumes. The difference between this number and the one hundred thousand books contained in the Center is a measure of the greater amount of material that is to be located there. While House libraries serve only as academic filling stations, the Book Center would be an educational super-service station...
...only when the library seeks actively to entice undergraduates with its charms as well as with its contents will they as actively respond. Only then can it exert a continual, positive influence in support of scholarship. And only when the Book Center exists can Justin Winsor's philosophy really bear fruit...