Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...building is now finished, many of the books have been moved to the new part, and already the Librarian is considering certain plans for the comfort and profit of students using the Library. It is proposed to enlarge the reading-room, to give students free access to more books, and to open the Library in the evening. Though these changes are at present only contemplated, they are of such obvious advantage that they doubtless will be carried out as soon as circumstances will allow...
...changes proposed are of such obvious advantage that they scarcely need comment. The time when study in the Library is no longer hindered by confusing noise, impassable bars, and the monotonous cry "Time to close the Library, as 't is sunset" will indeed be a time of long-sought comfort to every student. The suggestion about the alcoves is worthy of consideration; that about free criticism is almost unnecessary...
...decision of the Board that Memorial shall be kept open during the recess, and that those who are absent from Cambridge shall be charged half price, is, perhaps, on the face of it, somewhat unfair; but the same notice that gave the above information threw some crumbs of comfort to the members by assuring them that the decision had only been arrived at after a full discussion of many plans. One of these, it seems, was to close the Hall entirely, a course which experience has proved would result in a debt of $1,000 that would have...
...unfortunate enough to have several courses which require constant attendance at the Library, and, in common with many others, have found considerable difficulty in attending to my work there with any degree of comfort. The seats provided are so few that on several occasions I have not been able to procure one; and as my work lay among reference books, which are not allowed to go out, I have been obliged to postpone what I had to do. The same difficulty has been experienced by several of my acquaintance, and no doubt by many others. Since the Library has received...
...much less on Beck; but rather we must envy their intensely enlightened and cultivated condition, which raises them above ignoble struggles in a club boat to the glorious realms of infinite "loaf." The other clubs are fast approaching this delicious state. Our races must be sacrificed, but let us comfort ourselves: the sacrifice is to the noble cause of civilization...