Word: use
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Corporation has granted the petition made by the occupants of Perkins Hall to have another common room, larger than the one now in use. For this purpose, the partitions between suites two and four will be taken down, making a larger living room, and a smaller ante room. The alterations will be made during the summer. The Corporation has agreed to let Mr. Burke, the Inspector of Grounds and Buildings, make final arrangements with a committee composed of the following men: E. M. Rabenold 2L., H. S. Allem 3L., E. B. Stillman '06, B. Beckhard '07, and H. N. Davis...
...privilege of using your columns to suggest a plan, which it seems to me, would enable students in meagre circumstances to obtain for use in their courses, books which they would otherwise be obliged to purchase. These men have now either to make use of the reserved libraries in Gore and Harvard Halls, or they are compelled to buy all necessary books, either new, or at second-hand. The first alternative is not constantly convenient; the second, even when the books are bought at second-hand, entails more or less expense. Moreover, it is always necessary for every student...
Many students have in their possession books purchased for college courses, books which they will not again use. These are generally sold to second-hand dealers at ridiculously low prices. The suggestion I should like to make is that these books be collected by a student-committee, brought together, catalogued and kept in some accessible building, as Phillips Brooks House. This collection might be known as the Text-Book Loan Collection, and students would have the privilege of borrowing from it books to be used in connection with specific courses, and of retaining the same until...
...elected annually, and shall be constituted as follows: four representatives from the College and Scientific School, two representatives from the Graduate Departments of the University, the President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Union. The Governing Board shall make all rules for preserving order and relating to the use of the Club House. It may give permission for the use, on special occasions, of any hal or room that may not be reserved, but shall have no power to lease any part of the premises. The Board of Trustees may lease, at discretion, any part of the building...
...pamphlet describing the system and illustrating its use has just been published by the Observatory...