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...Crimson, Yale News and Princetonian are much read at the reading-room, where we have placed them by request of the association. - Williams Fortnight...
...great inconvenience because they are unable to refer to articles which bear on the subject in hand. >These bound periodicals are essentially books of reference, and should not be allowed to leave the library except upon the conditions which govern the use of reserved books in the reading-room. It is seldom that anyone desires to read more than one of the fifty or more articles which are contained in a volume, and this could easily be done in an hour. But a man if allowed to keep out a book a month, will be in no hurry to return...
...good to see that he is not even able to make it. The library is used, and we regret to say, abused also, - but here we are getting on to old theme of complaints, and as visions of petitions, of selfish and noisy men in the reading-room, and of electric lights, et cetera, et cetera, come upon us, we lay aside our pen, and permit ourselves for once, at least, to think of what the library is, not of what it might...
...lecture-room appliances. This lecture room is used for the lectures on veterinary medicine, botany, physics and anatomy. It is so arranged that a horse can be brought on to the front platform for the demonstration of experiments. A door connects with the hospital from this room. On the third floor is the dissecting-room. It runs up two stories and is lighted and ventilated by a large skylight. The floor is asphalt and the walls of brick, heavily painted. The subjects are taken up by elevator. Back of the dissecting-room is the library and reading-room. This...
Persons who use the reading-room of the library should remember that it was established for the use of all and not for the convenience of any one personally. This fact seems frequently to be forgotten. It is a habit of certain individuals to collect all the latest issues of the most popular magazines on entering the room, and then settle themselves down for a comfortable read, without a thought that they are leaving unused at the time three or four magazines which other men might like to see. It is nothing but an injustice for a man to keep...