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...column of this issue. No better step has been taken by the University than the provision of these rooms where men may go with some hope of finding what they want and of finding it where they expect it. The libraries are comparatively small and are very easy of access; then, too, general readers are kept out by the system of loaning keys and a great deal of the confusion incident to general reading rooms is then done away with. Several copies are generally provided when books are in great demand and these copies are never taken away. These libraries...
...preserving the banks of the Charles from being made a hideous spectacle of factories, wharfs and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked to do is to sign the petitions which have been left in places of easy access-a slight effort in view of what it may help to accomplish...
...resurrect from the Congressional Documents and from other sources equally inaccessible to the ordinary reader, a few of the most famous and valuable papers written by our earlier statesmen on the subject of the tariff. These papers, as he says, "are now reprinted in the hope that more easy access to them will be of service to teachers and students of economics, and will bring to the attention of thoughtful citizens serious and sober arguments removed from the heat of contemporary discussion...
...proposes to have erected a new Fine Arts building provided for by the Fogg legacy. A communication between the Fine Arts building and the reading room of the library would throw open the art collections to men using the library, and also give students of the Fine Arts convenient access simultaneously to books on art and to the works of art themselves. No scheme could be more advantageous to the Fine Arts department, especially, as in the carrying out of this scheme, Gore Hall one of the pet architectural aversions of the Fine Arts department, would be removed from sight...
...pressure in Gore Hall by throwing open to shelf room what is now used for the reading room. This might serve to solve the question of the Library with less expense than the proposed scheme but then, of course, it would leave the Fine Arts department without its convenient access to the Library...