Word: reading-room
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...this question analogous to that of opening the Reading-Room Sunday; for there are many students whose work takes so much time during the week that Sunday is the only day when they can read the papers and magazines...
...general condition. In the first place, the amount of gas-light shed upon the Boston newspapers at the end of the room is sadly deficient. It is probably the belief of the managers that this class of reading loses its interest long before there is need of artificial light upon it; but the majority of those who visit the reading-room in the earlier part of the day can afford to spend but a few moments before attending to their morning recitations; so that, if what they wish to read happens to be in the possession of some one else...