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...proposed 25 cent a day fine and loss of Widener privileges for overdue book holders has been turned down by a special library sub-committee, Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, announced yesterday...
...Metcalf also said that the Library has decided to abandon its policy of allowing students to borrow bound volumes of periodicals. Faculty members will retain this privilege but will have to return the volumes within a week...
...committee refused the 25 cent fine because it was characterized by what Metcalf termed "economic discrimination." Such a fine would mean little to many students financially well off, Metcalf said. Only the poorer student, he continued, would be affected by the proposed change in the fine system...
Then, in 1860, the firm of John Wilson and Son bought out Hilliard's interest and the name "University Press." Under the new management, with such men as Charles Folsom and Charles Metcalf, the University Press became nationally famous. Increased stores of type, ranging through Greek, Hebrew, German and old English, and new designs made an artistic reputation for the firm that equalled its business success. A chronicler of the University Press, writing for an alumni magazine at the end of the 19th century, said, "From the commencement of the present century almost all the original works of our greatest...
Some good news for growers of citrus fruit, cotton and potatoes came from Dr. Robert Metcalf. a co-worker of March's at California's Riverside Experimental Station. He and fellow workers have developed two new double-barreled insecticides that attack pests from inside plants. Called Systox and OMPA, they are a by-product of German wartime efforts to produce a nerve gas. If sprayed only on a tree trunk, Systox and OMPA work their way inside so neatly that they protect leaves that grow after the spraying is done. They seem to leave little harmful residue...