Word: steps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extensive use of reserved books, the heartiness with which every improvement is welcomed that facilitates the use of the Library, show how valuable is the aid it gives to members of the University. In view of all this, the opening of the Library on Sunday suggests the further step of opening it also during the evening. That there is a demand for this we hardly need to point out. The only sound objection is in the danger from fire; but good authorities, both in and out of the Library, repeatedly assert that danger from fire exists no more here than...
...Step, and Jump...
...first there is no cure but experience; but for the latter there is a possibility of improvement. To do this it would not be necessary to expand the elective pamphlet into a cumbersome volume, nor do we wish it. In one branch, that of geology, the right step has been taken. A description of all courses given has been published, in which the desired information is to be found. In the first place, the importance of the study of geology is set forth in a clear and forcible manner, but none too much so. The intimate relation of geology...
...also to the devotee of light literature, not to mention the occasional user of reference-books. It is difficult to see why the Library should be closed at all Sundays, unless for the lack of means to pay for attendants, but this, like several other recent improvements, is a step in advance, and a proof that Harvard College cannot afford to be bigoted in this liberal-minded...
...question of eligibility has been discussed since 1873, when one of the Overseers thought of removing from the State. The matter was brought forward prominently by the Harvard Club of New York, last spring, and finally they have been successful. It is easy to see the advantage of this step. It will tend to increase the patronage of the University, to remove those evils which beset all close corporations, and to make the influence of Harvard national rather than sectional...