Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monday, October 18 is the last day upon which courses may be changed (dropped or added), without liability of the course fee. Petitions must be filed in person at Room C, University Hall...
...Payson S. Wild, acting Master of the House, Eric T. Clarke '38, head of the Dance Committee, and Donald E. Burbank, Jr. '38, head of the Athletic Committee, will feature the dinner. Afterwards motion pictures, accompanied by a portable sound machine, will be seen in the Junior Common Room. Walt Disney cartoons and football and racehorse shorts will be shown...
When the Farnsworth Room was opened some twenty-one years ago, it ushered in a brand new approach, so far as the Harvard College Library was concerned, to the problem of supplying the student with books and encouraging him to read them. The prime aim was to put the reader at his case, to "make him feel at home," and to this end the room was comfortably furnished and attractively draped, and red tape was reduced to a minimum. No elaborate card-catalogues or "systems" were employed, and the nucleus of what is now a collection of five thousand volumes...
...Farnsworth Room is not without restrictions--one of the most irksome of which is that coats and notebook must be checked in the cloakroom across the hall--but an effort is made to show the student that the rules are not arbitrary, that by observing them he is maintaining for himself and others the charm and nacfulness of the library. Morever, when he infringes one of these little regulations, he is not made to feel, as he is in the reading room above, that by his negligence he has jeopardized the future of Harvard College...
...University librarians could spend half an hour in the Farnsworth Room, they might learn the way to stop the current undergraduate discontent about Widener. It will not come through abolishing catalogues or throwing the stacks open to all comers, although some modifications of the stack rule does seem in order. It will not come through any procedures which would prove in efficient in a large library. It can only come through a basic change in the library's attitude toward the undergraduate. Until the latter feels that the library is his, that attendants are there to help and not restrict...