Word: holding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...racks which hold the sixty miles of shelves are all in place. Both are of pressed steel, covered with a dark grey enamel. There are sixteen floors of these cases, capable of holding 2,500,000 volumes. Work on them has ceased, and the shelves will be in place by the first of April. These main book cases are extremely open. They extend only seven and a half feet from the floor, so that every volume may be reached without a stand. Means for transporting the books to and from the shelves, and a numbering system, have been carefully arranged...
...Summer School will have as its guests two conferences under the auspices of the Massachusetts Board of Education. The American Institute of Instruction, the oldest and best known association of New England teachers, will hold its annual meeting in Cambridge from July 1 to July 8. Prominent educators will attend and will present many valuable papers. All students of the Summer School are invited to attend the meetings of this body...
...Professor Pope will hold conference on Italian exhibition in Fogg Art Museum...
...National Security League of the University will hold its initial meeting in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. This organization is intended to emphasize our national lack of military and naval preparedness and arouse public influence to secure some systematic plan of national defence along the lines laid down by the National Security Commission created by Congress. Several prominent men, including the Hon. A. P. Gardner '86, M.C., Professors T. N. Carver and R. M. Johnton, will speak in favor of increasing our army and navy. The League will hold meetings at regular intervals...
...National Security League of the University will hold its first meeting in the Trophy Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The purpose of the organization is to arouse public influence to secure a systematic plan of national defence according to the plans of the National Security Commission created by Congress. Several prominent men, including the Hon. A. P. Gardner '86, M. C., who believe in national armament have been asked to speak on an increase in the number of battleships and a larger standing army. The active work of the society will be fully explained...