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...purpose of the Library is to place whatever books are needed by students as freely as possible at their service, and, to secure to each man equal rights in their use. Some seven or eight thousand volumes accordingly, designated by the professors as the most important for the work of their courses, are "reserved" from general circulation on the open shelves in the Reading Room where every one can handle them freely, and use them at pleasure. The only conditions necessary to secure satisfactory results are that the books shall not leave the Library and that they shall be used...
...About a thousand dollars has been spent in fixtures, a hat and shoe department has recently been opened, and the list of affiliated merchants has almost been doubled. The volume of business this year far exceeds that of last year...
...five collections, the Child Memorial Library is the largest as well as the most valuable. Among its three thousand or more books are numbered the volumes of the "Early English Text Society," the "Chaucer Society," the "Parker Society," the "Percy Society," and the "Shakespeare Society." There are also complete sets of Wycliff's "Latin Works," of Shakespeare, Bulwer, Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," Dickens, Thackeray, Newman, Matthew Arnold, Browning, Tennyson and Stevenson. These are supplemented by many books on general literature and by the books required for reading in the courses on the several periods of English literature. With...
These libraries comprise in all over six thousand volumes. Beginning Friday, Oct. 6, they will be open from 9 a. m. to 10 p.m. On the recommendation of their instructors the privilege of using the libraries will be granted to all students taking advanced courses in English, French, German, Romance or Indo-Iranian Departments. Cards of recommendation, signed by an instructor, should be presented at the College Library, where cards admission will be given out. As the books are regarded as reference collections, to be used only in Warren House, it will not be possible to borrow them for night...
President Eliot, who spoke first, said in part: The men who have come here for the first time have joined a body of men, twenty thousand strong, some living, some dead, but all making themselves equally heard. Yet in joining the College, they incidentally become members of one of its smaller groups; in fact the group, in the choice of subjects, rather than the particular class joined, is largely to determine the kind of men with whom they become most intimate. By this principle of subdivision the large college is distinguished from the small college. President Garfield once remarked that...