Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard and five other leading Eastern colleges shows Harvard to be far behind in library equipment, though leading all in number of volumes. The committee has sought to obtain from those most concerned information particularly in regard to three points: The relation of the special reference libraries to the central library; the possibility of separating "live" from "dead" books; the probable expediency of enlarging the present building as compared with erecting a new building...
...regard to the fundamental question of splitting up a number of separate libraries or of maintaining a central collection, the expression of opinion is unanimous in favor of maintaining a strong central library...
Isador Grossman '02, 1L., prepared for college at the Cleveland Central High School, where he was president of the Psi Omega Debating Society and commencement speaker in 1898. While at Harvard, he has always taken high rank in his studies, receiving a scholarship every year and being awarded a Detur in his Junior year. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. He has taken an active interest in debating: in his Freshman year he was on the team which debated against the Sophomores; the next year he was on the Sophomores; the next year...
...Sayre, Jr., a graduate of the class of '98, was shot and killed on the evening of February 18, being mistaken for a burglar while trying to enter his own house. Sayre was born in Central City, Colorado, and was twenty-five years old. He entered College in the fall of 1895, and during his Sophomore year became an editor of the Advocate. He was also a member of the Signet, O. K., and the Hasty Pudding Club. At the beginning of the Spanish war he went south with the Rough Riders, and afterwards was appointed lieutenant in the fortieth...
...Peabody Museum has issued a report of the expedition sent out last year, under Mr. Gordon, to investigate and decipher the inscriptions on the Hieroglyphic Stairway at Copan, Central America. The expedition was absent nine months and succeeded in uncovering all the stairway that still remains in position. There were originally eighty-five steps in the flight, but now only fifteen remain. The work of the expedition consisted principally of replacing the fallen steps in their proper order so that the inscriptions carved on the front of the steps could be deciphered. Mr. Gordon was finally enabled to translate...