Word: desk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...example, not one man in ten ever does anything in a spare hour between two classes. He sits down at his desk and sharpens a pencil, breaks it and tries again. Then he picks up a newspaper--often last week's--and reads a headline here, an advertisement there, and deciphers the cartoons with wrapt attention and solemn mien. Next, he opens a magazine lying at hand and reads half a story. Wearying of that, he curses in a bored sort of way and turns back to the pencil which he has again broken while tracing designs on his blotter...
...original manuscript of "America," lately presented to the University Library by the family of its author, Reverend Samuel F. Smith, will be on exhibition in Randall Hall this week and next week. Permission to examine it may be obtained at the Delivery Desk...
...benefit of the new members of the University who have not yet familiarized themselves with the use of the College Library, the following information is printed. New students who wish to take out books should register by presenting a Bursar's card at the desk in Randall Hall. Students who have registered may take out three books at a time, which may be kept for a month, unless marked as seven or fourteen day books. Randall Hall is open week-days from 9 A. M. to 5.30 P. M., but is closed on certain holidays. The reading rooms in Massachusetts...
...College Office are letters addressed to students care of Harvard University. Those who know or suspect mail has been so directed should apply in person at the desk in University 4, where mail will be delivered to the persons for whom it is intended...
Freshman members of the St. Paul's Society may procure shingles at the Society's desk in Phillips Brooks House today between 2 and 2.30 o'clock...