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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-I should like to call attention through your columns to the present library regulations of closing a half-hour before sunset. This is in one respect an absurd regulation,-one causing much inconvenience to certain students. It happens to myself, and I suppose to many others, to have lectures three days in the week from 2 to 4 o'clock P. M. There are others who probably have such every day in the week except Saturdays. Now is it fair that we should be debarred from drawing out books at night simply because we have such lectures...
...last University Calendar contained a piece of information of interest to all students who use the library. Hereafter that building will be closed in the afternoons during the winter half an hour before sunset. There is no doubt that this order is, in itself, for the best. The library is a very dark place, and to study in it towards sunset, is doubtless very injurious to the eyes. But this decrease in the amount of time available for using Gore Hall only brings to mind again the need of lighting the building after dark. Why should the usefulness of this...
...Council of the Library has directed that Gore Hall shall be closed hereafter at half an hour before sunset; and at 5 o'clock, when that hour is more than thirty minutes before sunset...
Hereafter the library will be closed a half hour before sunset; and at 5 o'clock, when that hour is more than thirty minutes before sunset. Reserved books can be taken out at 3 o'clock...
...will not attempt to enlarge on the needs for a change in the present regulation of closing the library at sunset. Most of the students have experienced the same inconveniences as myself. If some expression of the opinion of the whole college upon this subject could be made, the faculty might be induced to consider the matter favorable...