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...system of registry, which makes free use possible, is centred in a desk at the very entrance, in the transept of the great hall. This desk is in easy communication, by means of sliding boxes, with the stack-rooms, in which the body of the collection not needed for reference is packed with such economy of space that a low room, 61 by 22 feet, houses 40,000 volumes. Each book has pasted inside its cover a pocket, into which slips a book-card ; each reader is represented also by a card arranged according to his initials in a case...
...direction leaves the neighborhood in a very untidy condition. Such nuisances as circular distributors are not allowed to come into the yard, we believe. Why should they not likewise be kept from the vicinity of Memorial, where the scattering of myriad bits of paper in and outside of the transept produces an effect so untidy? Let Cambridge tradesmen confine their efforts to obtain customers to some more agreeable method and they will doubtless find that the patronage of the students will not diminish from the want of hand bill fare...
...evident yesterday to all, students included, from very early in the morning until the hours of work were over. About 7.30 the early breakfasts at Memorial Hall were surprised by the appearance of a detachment of grand Army veterans decorating, as is now the custom, the tablets in the transept. All the morning the air was filled with the sound of martial music, which reached a culmination about noon, when a procession, accompanied by much drumbeating and blare of trumpets, passed by the windows of Massachusetts, within which sat imprisoned a lot of helpless mortals busily intent upon the passing...
Today is known, at least to the outside world, as Decoration Day. It has been the custom of our college government to pass by this occasion without any notice or comment, although one has but to glance at the long array of tablets which line the transept at Memorial Hall to bring fresh to his mind the sons of Harvard who willingly laid down their lives that the Union might be in fact as well as in word a Union. The college authorities may be unable to observe with appropriate ceremonies this day, but let us at least, the students...
...these suggestions, however, fail to receive the approval of the board, we trust this last one will be carefully considered before final action is taken. We propose, that on the first of every month the Stewart, the chief cook and the head waiter, assemble in the transept, place a cauldron of boiling soup in their midst, and then, joining hands, turn slowly and majestically around it, shouting the chorus in "Macbeth" beginning...