Word: rooming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following a decision of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet to turn over to the Foreign Students Committee the use of the Ralph Hamilton Shepard Memorial Room in the Phillips Brooks House, the executive committee of the Council plans to redecorate the room and establish headquarters there for foreign students. The rearrangement of the room will be made with a view to embodying all the qualities of a club: Periodicals and books from most of the foreign nations will be kept on the shelves, and tea will be served on certain afternoons. While taking this step in realizing a headquarters...
...York, N. Y., Dec. 5--Definite plans for the establishment of a school of the theatre in Cambridge were completed at a meeting held tonight in the board room of the Harvard Club of New York City, attended by a group of the most distinguished men in the theatrical world. Winthrop Ames '95 presided over the discussion...
There is a serious deficiency in the administration of books reserved on the open shelves in the Main Reading Room of Widener Library. These books may be taken out Saturday evening and not returned until Monday morning. Such an arrangement is quite admirable from the standpoint of abstract liberality, but is necessarily harmful in frequent instances where examinations are held early in the week, and one student has control for two days of several books important in the course. Probably this situation arises rather from the neglect of the individual instructors than from inefficiency in the Reading Room itself...
...plan adopted this year by the Fogg Reading Room should be perfectly workable in Widener. A system under which the Museum Library was closed Sunday, and books could be obtained only for the Saturday-to-Monday period, has been replaced; at present the Reading Room is open Sunday; and, more important, books must be returned at that time on-week-ends preceding examinations. There is no reason why the extension of this requirement to Widener should work a hardship on any students; certainly it would be of benefit to most...
...Reproduction", Professor Parker, Geology Lecture Room...