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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Satisfactory as is the general plan of the system now in use at the Widener Library, it contains one detail which would instantly attract the eye of any efficiency expert seeking to eliminate unnecessary motion. The trip to the second floor of the Library is the cause of many steps that might easily be saved if it were arranged to have the books returned at either the Lower Reading Room or at the desk on the first floor. Attendants are already present at both places and the books might be relayed to their proper places by means of a small...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSERVATION OF ENERGY | 2/15/1917 | See Source »

...entertainment committee has completed plans for a series of Sophomore smokers to be held during the year. The first will take place at the Union on Wednesday evening, December 13. The usual refreshments and motion pictures will be provided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Smoker December 13 | 12/6/1916 | See Source »

...entertainment of its guests the Bazaar will have some world-famous actors and actresses, vaudeville artists, motion picture stars, leading musicians, famous bands and splendid orchestras. At every hour of the afternoon and evening the dance halls will be open and only ten cents a dance will be charged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bazaar Plans Bewildering | 12/2/1916 | See Source »

...crudely, there are two different kinds of knowledge--knowledge and experienced knowledge. The value of experience in any pursuit is well recognized. What does experience mean? It means, doing something--employing other senses than merely those of sight or hearing. It means touching things, it means motion, it means action. An act repeated a few times becomes infinitely more a part of you than a hazy mass of accumulated fact. The secret is open: pick out the fundamental truths from the confusion,--there are hundreds of channels to these truths--and then experience them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARACTER AND EXPERIENCE. | 10/23/1916 | See Source »

...closed to all except Yale graduates and undergraduates, and while no formal program of events is being planned for the evening, each class will enjoy itself in its own way in the enclosed space. There will be provided some fireworks and possibly an exhibition on an opening screen of motion pictures of scenes from Yale undergraduate life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE EXPECTS LARGE REUNIONS | 6/15/1916 | See Source »

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