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...This sort of thing happens over and over again. 'Having ears they hear not'," Mrs. Florence Milner, who came here ten years ago to open the Farnsworth Room in Widener on December 5, 1916, and has remained in charge of it ever since, told a Crimson reporter...
...Milner remarked that men have the ability to take a book and read three or four hours on a stretch, their only movement being to turn the pages. "No woman can do it," was her comment. "It is a purely masculine trait. Another thing, men like to be let alone when they are reading. Not that a 'Kipling' reader could be easily disturbed When I see a man reading 'Kipling' I know from experience that his mind is far from the Farnsworth Room...
...Last year, we lost only four books," replied Mrs. Milner when asked if many books disappeared from the shelves. "We consider them 'borrowed' as in almost every case such a book is eventually returned. 'The Patrician' strayed back after four years of mysterious wanderings...
...tradition of the Farnsworth Room is well established, it was pointed out by Mrs. Milner. "Freedom with dignity is what we strive for in the Farnsworth Room," she explained, "and it always comes if a man catches the Harvard spirit. Some men think the formality overdone, but they are the rare exceptions who do not fall into the spirit of the room...
...clock daily during the Christmas holidays. After the vacation it will be open daily from 10 o'clock in the morning till 10 o'clock at night, except on Sundays, when it will be open between 1 and 10 o'clock. This room, to which Mrs. Florence Milner, supervisor of the Farnsworth Room, will devote half of her time, contains at present 1,000 volumes, 90 per cent of which are literature. With shelf capacity for almost 2,500 books, considerable additions will be made according to the use and demand. For the present, no books may be taken from...