Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Annex played hostess to Miss Tomo Tambe, head of the English Department at Kobe. Miss Tambe has been studying the organization and administration of American women's colleges as a guest of Wellesley College since September and will return to Kobe this summer to help reorganize the senior college under the new education plan set forth by the occupation authorities...
Exchanges in cultural matters eventually evolved into an actual exchange of students in the late 30's. Miss Alice M. Maginnis, a Radcliffe graduate and an instructor in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, won the first fellowship to Kobe from Radcliffe. She was spending the summer of 1937 in Japan and China as a member of the study group under Robert K. Reischauer of Princeton University and was to study in Kobe that September...
...actually impractical to keep the library open for the entire summer, perhaps a less costly plan could be devised to open it at least one or two days of the week, and certainly for a couple of weeks before final exams. Staff would present no problem; the University plans to have librarians checking and classifying the books for part of the summer, in any case...
...summer school student who sits studying in his Yard room two months from now, with sweat pouring down onto his book and blurring the type, with mosquitoes buzzing around his ears, and with sopping handkerchiefs tied around his neck and forehead, will not understand why Lamont Library, the College's only air-conditioned building, is closed. He will not be too impressed with the questions of finance that will prompt the administrators of the library in their meeting today. He will be hot, hot and bothered...
...Director of University Libraries has estimated the cost of keeping Lamont open all summer at $10,000--most of which would go for air-conditioning--and the University feels that the money could be better spent elsewhere. This may very well be so, but there is no real excuse for treating the summer students as poor relations and denying them the regular College facilities. About 1500 undergraduates are expected to attend the summer school, and this number surely justifies some expenditure for their comfort and convenience...