Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contact, the sum total that most undergraduates know about Widener is that they must climb sixty-nine steps, pass by the controversial Sargent murals, and wait twenty minutes before they can get a book. Beyond this shallow depth of bibliophilistic comprehension they have seldom waded. The time is long overdue when students should realize what the library does for Harvard education, and what, ultimately, it might do to enhance that education...
Then, too, the great number of books in Widener requires a complicated catalogue. This unwieldy file is a great, black plague to the undergraduate. He is forced to wait a long while before the books he desires can be dug from the stacks. In other words, he, unlike the graduate student, cannot get the books he wants when he wants to. And since only advanced students and teachers can get stack permits, Widener's size, which is its blessing, has also proved to be its burden. Clearly the graduate student has the weighted side of the scales...
Maryland: Paul Southwick, Baltimore. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Walter B. Camp, Milwaukee. Minnesota: Ramer B. Holton, Zumbrota, Minnesota, and John M. Ward, Faribault, Minnesota. New Canaan, Connecticut; Berkeley D. More, Greenwich, Connecticut, and James M. Phillips, New Canaan. Long Island: Robert H. Troescher, Lynbrook, Long Island...
...York City: Robert F. Kolkeback, Brooklyn, New York, Donald E. McNicol, Flushing, Long Island, Alexander D. Mebane, New York City, Peter H. Muench, Bergenfield, New Jersey, Alan G. Skelly, Brooklyn, and Adam Yarmolinsky, New York City. Philadelphia: Allen D. Sapp, Jr., Haverford, Pennsylvania...
...TIME would as soon seek the credit for inventing the steamboat as for inventing plunderbund-a word which is in the dictionary and which existed long before TIME...