Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Culminating widespread indignation over the calibre of reading material to be found in Stillman Infirmary, Arlie V. Bock, Hygiene Department head, announced to the Student Council last night a plan by which it is hoped that the intellectual side of the Infirmary will be elevated...
...which the University will immediately invest $100 for books in Stillman. This will be the start of a small library which will annually be increased by purchasing books to the value of about $50. The selection of the books will be in the hands of a committee of three students appointed by the President of the Student Council...
...agitation for a higher grade of books in Stillman has been smouldering for several years, and this year a group of Sophomores called it to the attention of the Student Council in a specific demand for "reading of a better sort than detective stories...
...certain mild realism now demand that Harvard find a permanent solution for a problem which ha itself become permanent, and that it find some stop-gap until this remedy is put into effect. Centuries mean little to Harvard, but three years of injustice can do much to a student...
...pamphleteer ruled out the expedients of building another House, curtailing the student body to fit accommodations, or "allowing the outhousers, in the meantime, the use of our dining-halls and libraries--for the first two are too wild and desperate to be considered, and the third would compromise the dignity of the House system...