Word: roome
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place for holding mass meetings, smokers, class dinners, and for hearing prominent speakers and lecturers, the Union's large Living Room has proved exceptionally adequate; as a social club for the entire University, the Union has never succeeded. Its Dining Room has seldom been crowded, and its Library, which comprises some 13,000 volumes, has been unappreciated quite out of proportion to its scope. Even the college papers, which have maintained offices in the building, have gradually deserted their former haunts, preferring, no doubt, an atmosphere less heavily surcharged with the musty odor characteristic of disuse...
...Society of Harvard Dames will meet in the Shepard Room of the Phillips Brooks House this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This will be the first of the regular series of meetings on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month throughout the remainder of the year...
Either through selfish carelessness or dishonesty the unusual privileges of the Farnsworth Room in the Widener Library are being abused. The unfortunate side of it is that this tendency is increasing as time goes on. The first year only one book was lost. Thus far this year more books have disappeared than during the preceding two years together. It ought to be understood by this time that "The books of the Farnsworth Room are to be used in the room only. They are not to be borrowed or taken away...
...only explanation of the growing misuse of the room is that people do not know or are beginning to forget that the Farnsworth Room is a memorial, as the bookplate indicates, and should be sacred from desecration. It is inconceivable that any college man should wish to rob something which has been given as a monument for the whole University to enjoy...
...increase of such practice might with reason, lead to only one thing, the closing of the Farnsworth Room. The many may have to suffer for the crimes of the few. Let us hope that those who are thus abusing the privileges of the room will desist, and those who are glad to use the room legitimately will help bring the offenders to light...