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...pleased to be able to announce that our repeated efforts to make clear to the corporation the necessity of lighting the library during the evening have received some attention. We are informed that it is intended to tear down and rebuild the entire interior of Gore Hall some time in the near future; when this is done provision will be made for lighting the hall. This announcement is extremely indefinite and hardly affords occasion for congratulation; but, nevertheless, it shows that those in authority have begun to feel the inconvenience to which the whole body of students is daily...
...library in Gore Hall is open Sundays during term-time from 1 till 5 o'clock for the use of members of the university only...
During the past year both the Harvard and Yale libraries have been used more extensively than ever before. From September 1, 1888, to August 31, 1889, there were 69,892 volumes taken from Gore hall alone. This does not include those taken out for one night only. During the same time 10,21 volumes were taken from the Yale university library. The Yale News contains the following summary of the way in which these volumes were distributed...
...month from the Harvard library in this period was in March, when 6,124 volumes were drawn out. The greatest number was drawn out of the Yale library in February, when 1367 volumes were taken out; during the same month, 5332 volumes were drawn out from Gore hall...
...library in Gore Hall is open Sundays during term-time from 1 till 5 o'clock for the use of members of the university only...