Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealer in Paris and London, buy cheap prints which could be taken up into the line. Apart from this, the best thing he remembers about the War was driving a British tank, whose downslithers gave him "a lovely sensation." Abstracted, ruddy and untidy, he now sits at a big desk beside a lofty window which frames two sprawling, dirty vines and a begonia plant, directs the immaculate preservation of more than 100,000 prints. Last winter Curator Rossiter exhibited 500 as the first gesture in celebration of his department's soth anniversary. The lithographs now on view...
...official grudge against undergraduates is that they often abuse these privileges, entering stacks merely to get boks they might have applied for at the desk, or to sit and study a volume they might just as well have used in the reading room or their own quarters. All this implies unwarranted suspicion of the student's sincerity. The men whose college records permit them to write theses for honors have proved both their ability and sincerity. If allowed to work without obstruction they might make worthwhile contributions to their fields...
...possible but perhaps unconscious reason why more fellows--to answer the CRIMSON editorial of October 13--do not study in the Widener reading room is that it is improperly lighted. At night room is that it is improperly lighted. At night the desk lamps cast uneven light over the tables and it is difficult for anyone who doesn't place his book directly under the lamp to see without straining his eyes...
Another sports gets under way today when Lacrosse has its first meeting at the Dillon Field House this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Neil Stahley, coach of both the Varsity and Freshman teams, has requested all candidates for either team to report to the Supply Desk at the Field House. No experience is necessary, he says. Captain of the Varsity this year is Thomas B. Campion '38. The manager is Bernard A. Helfat...
...five-story private house at 32 East 67th Street, with a new, shining, white façade and MARCEL ROCHAS in deep blue over the lintel, it sits in a row of old brownstone apartments, like a blue-eyed blonde on a bench with pickaninnies. Inside is a big desk which no one, however pompous, may pass without presenting an invitation (issued this week only to socialites and nouveaux riches)-a barrier raised partly for swank, partly to keep out style pirates of whom couturiers have a healthy fear, in spite of the fact that to make cheaply a good...