Word: new
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...new case for the card catalogue at the Library will, it is hoped, facilitate a speedy delivery of books, and we are glad to see that one alcove has been turned into a miniature reading-room. The recently introduced method of getting out books is cumbrous and unpleasant; but of course we poor undergraduates are not expected to see its merits, as, indeed, we do not, though its faults are patent to all. The increasing interest in the study of history in this College has laid bare another defect in our Library. Of what works we have duplicate sets (Bancroft...
...New York or to Boston...
...architects of the new Gymnasium are aiming to make it as complete as possible, and with that end in view have expressed themselves willing to receive suggestions from the students. It is to be hoped that a similar spirit will actuate the architects of our mental gymnasium, - the new hall for recitation and lecture rooms. That these rooms will be properly heated and ventilated, after all that has been said on the subject, we may reasonably expect. There are other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance...
...finished so that pictures and statuary, should the future provide any, would not seem out of place in them. Other suggestions might perhaps be offered, but even if these few are attended to, we think a great deal of good will be done. If we are to have new recitation-rooms, they ought to be made with all the improvements that the art of building has attained and that experience can suggest. If our present recitation-rooms are poorly ventilated and lighted, have bare walls and hard benches, let us hope that the new ones will be light, airy, comfortable...
...give no offence in matters about which morality has little or no concern. But against flippant talk about dishonorable and vicious acts it is his duty to express himself. Outside of college such statements are mere truisms, but in some quarters in college they seem to be regarded as new and impossible...