Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the dedication a buffet luncheon will be served in the Reading Room, and an inspection of the building will follow. One of the unique features of the new building which the visitors will be shown is the reading room, the largest in any library in the world, a room 480 feet long, extending the length of the building. In the center of this huge room there is located a delivery desk 24 feet square, with a capacity for 1600 books within the desk. A book lift connects this desk with the book stacks in the basements, so that...
...some years now since the Roving Reporter received his sheepskin from a New England college, shed a tear or two on the chapel steps and departed either to set the world on fire or discover that its principal ingredient was asbestos...
...have customs changed in the matter of interior decorations of college rooms. A few empty gin bottles, a stein or two, felt pennants of other colleges (those of rival institutions usually upside down) and books with titles that promise a world of arid fact within...
News, it almost goes without saying, is the voice, the language, of the world in action. To the men in college who are seeking constructive things they can mentally accumulate, the news offers the best available advance map and chart of those fields where college "cadets" sooner or ready, a convenient exercise for those who wish to keep intellectually "in training." In turn, the news requires a taste and appreciation on the part of its readers. This further constitutes a helpful influences for those to cultivate who would make their "first solo" flights successful...
...such a newspaper he wishes-if he is seeking the one most complete, the one most valuable sources of news information on what the entire-world is doing, saying, thinking every twenty-four hours-if he is concerned with influences that equip him to "fly alone"-he will find supremely what he wants...