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...have received a carefully written article on the Library, stating some disadvantages of the present system. It is urged that the facilities for procuring books are inadequate, and that much valuable time is wasted while waiting for them. It is true that sometimes delays occur when many want to be served at once, but the Library is as free from this inconvenience as any large library anywhere. The shelves obviate the difficulty in the case of those books most frequently consulted, and the rapid growth of our Library, requiring many to be employed in cataloguing new books, somewhat reduces those...
...facilitation of the delivery of books in large libraries is having much attention paid to it at present, and undoubtedly, if a better system is forthcoming, our Library will not be slow in adopting it. The rapid growth of the German department is marked, and to general students seems forced excessively, and at the expense of the other branches. Very naturally, light reading matter is comparatively rare, but fully enough can be found to take up any spare moments; however, as things are tending, the future student probably will look upon Baine and the complacent Whately as the favorite authors...
...College Library ought to furnish him with these books, and a reasonable discretion should be allowed as to the number taken. A thousand objections may be raised, - all might take a hundred volumes more or less, - but only a few hard-working men would really desire more than the present allowance, and they are the men the Library should be for. A student in history may want several works of, say, three volumes each, and make good use of them. At present he is limited to but three volumes, unless by special favor. If books are continually called...
...entered College regularly with the present Senior Class, and remained one of their number during the greater part of the Freshman year; but, owing to ill-health, he was obliged to discontinue his studies and finally leave College...
...cannot refrain longer from pointing out this one-sidedness in the objects of our associations, and suggesting some remedies. That I may not seem to pretend to greater ability and ingenuity than I possess, let me declare at once that the conception of what I am about to present was not wholly original with me. Great men suggested the idea, and great moralists have done much to encourage it. De Quincy has written an essay on "Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts." "The Prayse of Ignorance" was one of Tom Hood's "Whims...