Word: roome
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From a night of calm security I rose, as did thousands about me, to the day's work. But before I could leave my room the steam whistles of all the great industries in the great city and of all the steam craft in its great harbor began to blow.; to bellow and scream and roar and wail in unnumbered voices that presently fused into one and rolled down through hundreds of miles of streets into the open country...
...steps be taken to make this library at the Union serve a useful purpose. We are urged not to waste. Let us not waste the time of men who are nightly turned away from the Widener Library because of lack of room...
...congested conditions in the main Reading Room in the Widener Library have reached an acute stage. Every night during the last week there have been from forty to fifty men who have been unable to find seats. The capacity of the Reading Room is about three hundred and fifty. Approximately four hundred members of the S. A. T. C., the Naval Unit, and the College come to do their studying in this room every evening. There is no doubt that more would come if room were available, and many men are kept from enjoying a facility to which they...
Compulsory study at night is now being operated in full force. Every man in the S. A. T. C. is compelled to go to a room between the hours of 7.30 and 9.30 and do his work under supervision of a superior officer. As yet the men in the Naval Unit have had no supervised work, but plans are under preparation to give them the same sort of discipline. However, many men in the Naval Unit and the Junior S. A. T. C. have been using the upper reading room of Widener Library for study that 50 more seats will...
...thought much of you and the day of returning to the low-ceiled, book-lined room of bright fire and warming friendships...