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reading the summary of the report, one's attention cannot fail to be attracted by the portion devoted to the description of the proposed alterations in Gore Hall. After the long years during which our students have been compelled to content themselves with the antiquated reading-room accommodations afforded by our library, it is pleasant, to say the least, to learn that any improvement has even been thought of by the authorities. The suggestion of providing suitable accommodations for those students who are not resident at the university is a valuable one. Such provision for "day students," would, in effect...
...important portion of the report is that devoted to the library. It seems that plans have been procured for remodeling the interior of the older portion of Gore Hall, at an expense...
These plans are very attractive, and would effect a great improvement upon the present condition of things; but it would be a better plan to convert the old Gore Hall into a fireproof bookstack, and to build a new reading-room on the north side, and so attached that no reasonable objection could be taken to lighting the room. Such a reading-room ought to have seats for at least 250 persons, and should be provided with coat-rooms and dressing-rooms, that students who have no rooms in Cambridge might find themselves comfortably provided for at the reading-room...
...books, he is still often hampered by a certain unfamiliarity with the card catalogue system. Now, however, that a lecture is to be given with the sole intention of clearing away all real or imaginary difficulties in the way of making the most profitable use of the volumes in Gore Hall, no excuse whatever will remain for the student who neglects to avail himself of one of the greatest benefits that Harvard has to bestow...
...present comparative uselessness, is entirely uncalled for and slightly premature. If the necessary money is furnished, it could not be put to a better use than by improving the University library building where the donated books could be most safely, economically, and usefully preserved. The question of improvements in Gore Hall has been so long before the college that we have approached it with much hesitance, and have only been led to speak of the matter through a fear that, in the desire of the university to secure to the Divinity School such a valuable addition to its library...