Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year wears on. But what those who watch others go into Hour exams for the first time fail to tell them is, that it is not hard to pass the tests, given a reasonable amount of brains and ability, and in general the College is willing to stack the cards in the student's favor...
...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...
Lusty have been the wails of frustrated honors candidates who have sought entry to the bottomless caverns of Widener in search of the priceless riches entombed there. Stack privileges are so monopolized by instructors and graduate students that only a few of the coveted admission cards have trickled down to the mass of seniors. Thus the third estate remains unread...
...Stack privileges to Seniors in Widener Library can be extended beyond the usual ten entries per year if there is need for it, Robert H. Haynes, Superintendent of Circulation, said yesterday. Seniors have complained of the regulation limiting the number to ten, saying that they cannot do adequate work for their theses with this number of entries...
...unfair" to good old "Snatch," his many ruling class friends have been influentially murmuring in London ever since, but an old imperial precedent is in favor of the foreign nation which is to blame always paying the indemnity. For example the assassination in Egypt of Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack cost Egyptians exactly $2,300,000 (TIME. Dec. 1, 1924). In the painful dilemma of 1937, Britain's Cabinet last week announced that the House of Commons will be asked to vote ?5,000 ($25,000) to "Snatch." Fully convalescent. Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen left Shanghai...