Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hunt has been making every effort to use these two runners whenever possible in order to get them ready for the Big Three meet on Nov. 1. The team to beat there is Princeton, which has fielded one of its strongest freshmen teams in many years. They have beaten all opponents, but Hunt does not feel Princeton has been really tested...
...sorry," the attendant said, "the Houghton Library is for the use of scholars...
...Supreme Court. He himself was a lawyer. He was particularly well fitted to be long, verbose, tiresome, and pompous. When we told him, as the new chairman of our committee, that we wanted a rare books library, he became indignant and said he thought it was a very poor use of money. In fact, he thought that rare books were utterly useless, and as far as he was concerned, he would give us no assistance and would do everything he could to restrain us from acquiring such a building...
...strengths and working on areas of weakness. In the late 1950's, for example, the library began collecting Oriental manuscripts, of which it had only a few. "There were opportunities, the prices weren't high, and there wasn't much competition," Hofer says. "It goes like that. We use our money well...
Houghton, in other words, serves an international community. As many as half of the people who annually use the library have no connection with Harvard. To them, for a small charge, the Houghton readily makes its resources available...