Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...double disadvantage of inaccessibility and of opposition to the projected growth of the college towards the south. The alternative of erecting a group of buildings suitable for class purposes central to the group of dormitories to be installed near the river-and leaving the Yard to the exclusive use of the Freshmen has the advantage of helping to unify both these groups. But the distance factor enters in again and would serve to make it impossible for those taking science courses to cover the long leagues between their laboratories and the river in the seven minutes allowed...
Dean Benedict's report shows that, between the hours of 9 and 12 o'clock on week-day mornings, nearly every available class room is in continuous use. Practically the only one which is not taxed to the limit at these hours of the morning is the New Lecture Hall, and that is used two-thirds of the time...
...students are occupied by classes the entire morning, from 9 until 12 o'clock, every day of the week. It would be possible to accommodate only three more courses a week in the 12 class rooms of a seating capacity of from 76 to 200, which are in use 95, percent of the time. The situation in the 29 recitation rooms seating between 50 and 100 is perhaps the most striking of all. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings every one of these rooms is filled for the entire time, while on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays but three...
Exclusive of Emerson E. 23, and 27, which are used for conferences and not for regular classes, there are available for College use 48 class rooms in all, including those in Emerson, Sever, Harvard, New Lecture Hall, and the Semitic Museum. According to Dean Benedict's report, these rooms are in use on the average, about 88 percent of the time, during the busy morning hours. Before 9 and after 12 o'clock, the situation is not nearly so congested...
...demand for the Film by Harvard Clubs all over the country has been so great that there is now one copy on the Pacific Coast, a second in the middle and southwest, and a third in use among the eastern clubs...