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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reserved for outside reading in each course. These books are arranged each morning on the shelves of the library in a systematic way so that a man has no difficulty whatever in finding any book he wants. But before an hour has passed whoever wants a book must search every shelf, table and corner of the reading-room before he can be sure that the book he wants is not in use. If each man should take the very slight trouble necessary, and replace the book in its proper place after using, he would save an infinite amount of annoyance...
...most important one of all (and hence, the one most in demand last Friday and Saturday) could be found nowhere, Friday afternoon and Saturday forenoon. It was ascertained that the book had been taken out Friday evening, in the regular way, by a certain '88 man, and Saturday forenoon search was made throughout the reading-room and the book was not there at all. Finally, in the afternoon, it was found out that the aforesaid person had recaptured it the first thing after returning it, and that he was now in the stack (which is inaccessible to students at large...
...publish to-day the situation of affairs in the Mott Haven cup controversy which has lately arisen. The loss of the records of the association show lamentable negligence on the part of some one; a search ought to be made for the missing journal, for it cannot be certain, at least from what is now known, that it is certainly lost. If, however, no minutes can be found, the question should be settled in some other way at an early date. The general understanding throughout the college world is that Harvard owns the cup, and we do not believe that...
...Minneapolis, who was one of the originators of the idea of a challenge cup, and gave something towards its purchase, saying that he did not intend the cup should ever become the property of any one college, but should remain as a perpetual challenge cup. Then, of course, search was made for the record of the resolution of the association which gives Harvard her claim to the cup - only to result in the discovery that the secretary's records had been lost. The matter is now being investigated by a committee consisting of representatives from Columbia, Pennsylvania...
...above clipping gives evidence of that spirit of newspaper work which is now doing so much to lower the tone of the press in this country. In a vain search after reputation as a brilliant reporter, the unscrupulous newspaper man hunts around for exciting news. When none can be found, an inaugriative brain has been known to concoct falsehoods and publish them with brazen effrontery. Colleges especially are exposed to this newspaper pest. The doings of students are always painted in the loudest tints and an indiscretion is magnified into a crime...