Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken up by the desks and tables than is new given over to them. The few remaining tables will be only for the use of those readers who are looking over the displays, or consulting them for small references. About half of the cases will be taken out, and much more space is to be used for exhibitions. In the old room there will still be kept shelves for books which certain undergraduate courses require. The cases about the wall of the upper Treasure Room will continue to hold many of the library's choicest possessions...
...know what extraordinary changes have come in the last fifty years in material ways--in buildings, land, equipment. We know, too, how great has been the growth in numbers. I wish to say something on an aspect of the University's development which is not so much talked about, and which bears on the possibilities of the fifty years to come...
...indeed a stimulating site for professional teaching and scientific research. But a metropolis does not readily foster a college. Is the old Harvard to stay? Is Harvard to remain a place where boys will grow into youths and men under the influences and in the surroundings which mean so much--almost everything--to us? Or will the College decay as the professional departments grow? Will the only colleges of the old type that remain be those in the country towns--Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst...
...Housing Plan we have heard much. We know what it means for education in the narrower sense. It means closer association between teachers and students, a more efficient organization and working of the tutorial system, a better provision of libraries and reading facilities. It will immensely improve and humanize the material surroundings of the undergraduates, in the same way as the Freshman Dormitory system has done for the entering class...
...regard to the relation of the class to the residential hall has been shared by us, namely, that class unity and spirit will acquire renewed strength only through single classes comprising hall memberships, and not representatives of four. Our feeling on this subject has been based not so much on a fear that university representation in halls will be a divisive factor in the life of the College, as that the emasculating of the class as a fulcrum of government and social intercourse will disrupt a hallowed and highly admirable feature of our society...