Word: useful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...would be similar to our own under the same circumstances. If we are to continue to play the strongest teams of the East, we must play them on an equal footing. If they can be persuaded to cut down their schedules, the scheme deserves consideration. If not, let us use our influence for what seems best, but not perform damaging theoretical experiments upon ourselves...
...Library maintains a large reading-room for general use, in which some 25,000 volumes are placed on open shelves accessible to all. Of these, 5000 volumes are reference books of various kinds permanently shelved here, 5300 volumes are United States documents, the complete file of which is constantly needed by students in American history, and finally, over 11,000 volumes are "reserved" books taken from the stacks at the request of instructors and kept here, that they may be easily accessible and equally useful to all. This purpose is realized only if all who consult the room consent...
...demand can be ascertained in advance, are kept behind the Superintendent's desk and are handed out on request and for a limited time. Unless the other books can be protected from depredation by the cultivation of an unmistakable and executive public opinion against a mean and selfish use of them, we may as well send the books all back to their places in the bookstack and confess that a reading room with open shelves is a failure...
...criticize the lack of interest in studies at Harvard after reading the communication from Mr. Lane which we print in another column? Many earnest individuals not content with monopolizing the air and books of Gore Hall for hours at a time must needs appropriate for their exclusive use the volumes most in demand. As long as they are actually using the books no one can severely censure them except for dullness; but when they attempt to found a private library by stealthy and underhand methods, it is time for all fairminded frequenters of the Library, as well as the less...
...sense of loyalty to the University should hesitate to report any information which would lead to the discovery of the guilty parties, for the sooner an example is made of some flagrant offender, the better it will be for the Library and for the great majority who use it legitimately...