Word: loan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...experience of recent years shows that a small loan fund would be of great advantage to many worthy students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In cases of sudden or temporary hardship, loans in small amounts and for short periods are frequently needed to enable students to get the best advantage of the year of study upon which they have embarked. Men of capacity and ambition are from time to time obliged to break off their studies in the course of the year, or to spend many hours of valuable time in supporting themselves by work which...
With these new sources and wider publicity the use of the Loan Library has greatly increased during the past year, 511 books having been withdrawn by 180 men. This is an increase in books used of 136 over last year. The greater use of the library by law students has helped in this respect...
...present number of volumes now available on the shelves of the Text-Book Loan Library is 2274, a net increase of about 300 over last year. Of these, quite a large proportion are language books, especially in the French and German courses. The books of these courses and others where there is a variety of authors have been arranged in alphabetical order upon the shelves...
...books for this library are regularly obtained in the clothing collections which are made every year. In the past year an attempt was made to induce the Seniors to contribute the books they were through with to the Loan Library. Quite a number of books were obtained, but not as many as might have been, because of the general rush at the close of the year. It is hoped that this idea may be worked out much more successfully this coming June, by having special collectors...
...steady increase in the use of the Loan Library for the past few years shows that it has a place to fill in helping to lower the expenses of needy students. It was considered of enough importance in this way to be included in the prospectus issued concerning the new Freshman dormitories. There has been a wider knowledge of its existence and its advantages. The demand for books, especially at the beginning of the year, when someone was kept constantly in attendance, was great. Many more books could be used, and it is hoped that those who can give books...