Word: various
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...call the attention of the University through your columns to the investigation now being made by the Harvard Dining Association concerning the patronage by the undergraduates of the various dining places in Cambridge, with a view of finding out their needs and wishes, and with the express purpose of discovering some new scheme for carrying on Memorial Hall which will be more acceptable to them...
...various relay teams representing the University are made up as follows...
...annual meeting of the Association of Colleges in New England at Cambridge, December 6, 1907, voted, to send to the various colleges represented in the association the following expression of opinion: That an exaggerated amount of attention is now being given to intercollegiate athletic contests in most of the New England colleges, and that to diminish this exaggeration the most effective measure would be a large reduction in the number of intercollegiate contests...
...Hall library adjoining the Delivery Room, has recently been opened. On one side will be found a few encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and general books of reference, of which some have heretofore been kept under the catalogue cases and some in the staff work-rooms. On the other side are collected various current indexes to newspapers and periodicals, bibliographies which supplement the subject catalogue, and printed catalogues of neighboring libraries from which the Library borrows when the need arises. Among these catalogues are many lists which are confined to special subjects or classes of books. A more detailed statement in regard...
...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...