Word: requested
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...these, 5000 volumes are reference books of various kinds permanently shelved here, 5300 volumes are United States documents, the complete file of which is constantly needed by students in American history, and finally, over 11,000 volumes are "reserved" books taken from the stacks at the request of instructors and kept here, that they may be easily accessible and equally useful to all. This purpose is realized only if all who consult the room consent to use the books in a spirit of fairness and with due regard for the rights of others. It is defeated whenever individuals carry away...
...moderate number of the books most in demand at the moment, so far as the demand can be ascertained in advance, are kept behind the Superintendent's desk and are handed out on request and for a limited time. Unless the other books can be protected from depredation by the cultivation of an unmistakable and executive public opinion against a mean and selfish use of them, we may as well send the books all back to their places in the bookstack and confess that a reading room with open shelves is a failure...
...Corporation has given this guarantee at the request of the directors of the Dining Association as the first step toward some permanent arrangement by which cheaper board may be secured at the Hall. Three reforms are contemplated as a means to this end. A reduction in the fixed charges, such as the cost of service, will be made. Within the past week the pay-roll of the Hall has been cut down by $590 a month. The variety of food offered will be curtailed, the articles on the menus being less in number, but changed daily instead of offered...
President and Mrs. Eliot request the pleasure of the company of all students at the University absent from home, who may remain in Cambridge during the Christmas recess, at Phillips Brooks House on Christmas Eve, Tuesday, December 24, from eight-thirty to ten o'clock...
President and Mrs. Eliot request the pleasure of the company of all students at the University absent from home, who may remain in Cambridge during the Christmas recess, at Phillips Brooks House on Christmas Eve, Tuesday, December 24, from 8.30 to 10 o'clock...