Word: useful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Eight of the new tennis courts on Soldiers Field are now ready for use. Tickets will be sold at the Locker Building to any member of the University wishing to use the courts, and no one will be allowed to play without buying a ticket. Contrary to the custom at Jarvis and Holmes Fields, men playing by the hour must buy a ticket, instead of paying in cash. Hourly tickets may be bought at 10 cents each, and twenty-hour tickets at $1.50 each...
...reason, or perhaps for no reason at all, this custom has been forgotten, the Newell gate is kept locked on such occasions, and the undergraduates pass through the regular entrances. Without pretending to pass finally on the practicability of re-adjusting the ticket-taking and seating arrangements now in use, we think that the custom is too good to allow to die, and that, if revived, it will recall to future College generations the memory of a Harvard man so deserving of perpetuation...
...department of Engineering has just received as a gift from the Western Electric Company of New York City a valuable lot of telephone apparatus. It includes the equipment for a common battery telephone exchange, such as is used in all large cities, and material for a magneto-automatic telephone exchange, for use in small towns. There is also a complete equipment for a four-party line and a large assortment of switchboard and lead-covered street telephone cable. A number of transmitters and receivers have, in addition, been received from the American Bell Telephone Company...
...apparatus, which is now being mounted for experimental use, will form a complete model of switchboard and line equipment...
...discourtesy of the attendants at Gore Hall, especially in the Reading Room is well known to many men who have tried, often in vain, to obtain the use of some book during the rush hours. The indifference shown to the wishes of borrowers is in marked contrast to the courteous attention of librarians in many of our public libraries. Although we realize that the position must be a trying one, and that many foolish and useless questions are asked, nevertheless the attendants are paid to help find and distributed the books, and long service and thorough knowledge of the shelves...