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...many men as the old laboratory. During the spring the laboratory will be made more nearly complete by setting up a large number of instruments outside of the building. These will include two or three large telescopes, which any member of the University will probably be allowed to use, whether he is taking an astronomy course...
...annual report of the Semitic Museum, by the Curator, Professor D. G. Lyon, states that during the past year the matter of chief interest in this department has been the erection of the Semitic Building. It is expected that the building will soon be in use, but owing to the absence of the Curator, the collections of the Museum will have to remain where they are until next summer. Until last June no provision had been made for supplying the building with cabinets, furniture and library conveniences, but in that month, Mr. Jacob H. Shiff, founder of the Museum...
...most conveniently found. An investigator failing to find in one of these subscribing libraries a work dealing with his subject of research, may easily ascertain whether it is contained in the National Library by reference to these cards; and may, through the intervention of the local library, obtain the use of it under the system of interlibrary loan...
...Committee on the Semitic Museum has decided to use several rooms in the Museum for educational purposes. The furnishing of the building has already been begun, and the rooms will be ready for use about March 1. The entire Semitic Department will be transfered to the new quarters as soon as the furnishing is completed, and the seventeen courses of the department will be given in the lecture rooms which are being fitted up for that purpose. In addition to the lecture and recitation rooms there will be a large Semitic library comprising both the regular text books...
Several tables are included in the report, which show the number of students who used the libraries during the year. As no record can be kept of the open shelves in the reading rooms, all reference to them is excluded from the following figures: The recorded use of the 928 reserved volumes in the Harvard Hall reading room in the course of the year amounted to 28,496 The number of over-night loans was 13,566. At Gore Hall, books lent numbered 63,673, and those used in the building (recorded use only) numbered...