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...librarians' arguments against the freshmen's request, if correctly quoted, show a failure to understand the College's responsibility for providing usable study facilities to the first year class. From Mr. Metcalf's question, "Do 1,000 freshmen want to pay $30 apiece (for the additional library time)?" we can infer that each student around here pays only for the facilities at his disposal. At that rate freshman room rent, board rates, and tuition should be lowered and those of the upperclassmen raised. By the same logic, natural science students should pay more than those...
Director of the Harvard College Library Keyes D. Metcalf said last night, "We will do what the student body really wants, providing their requests are economically feasible. But it is a matter of dollars and cents. The additional hours proposed would cost the College $0,000. Do 1,000 freshmen want to pay $0 apiece...
...Metcalf added, "This decision was reached on the basis that pressure for space did not make the shift necessary, and that there was enough opposition to the proposal to make it wise to reach this negative conclusion...
...merger was originally proposed as a space-saver, since it would eliminate over 2,000,000 duplicate cards. Metcalf proposed to move the second-floor catalogue--which contains listings by author, subject, and title--into the first floor Union Catalogue--which has listings, by author only, of almost every book in the University...
Among the opponents of Metcalf's plan were William A. Jackson, director of Houghton, and Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English...