Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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The question for debate at the regular meeting of the Freshman Debating Club last night was "Resolved, That capital punishment should be abolished." The decision was won by the affirmative, supported by J. S. Leopold, D. W. Howes and A. H. Weed. The critic of the evening was H. B...
Mr. W. C. Lane, librarian of the University, addressed the Modern Language Conference last evening on "Suggestions on the Use of the College Library." Mr. Lane said in part:
A library is at best a complicated piece of machinery, success in using which depends largely on the ingenuity of the student. To assist him, however, there are three helps,--classification of books on the shelves, a record or catalogue, and bibliographical works and assistance.
The fundamental idea in the classification of books in the stack of the Harvard Library is to place all the resources which are needed at one time by the student in the same place. Of course all the works on a subject cannot be brought together, but much can be...
The catalogue is the second help. Some subjects are most easily followed up by turning to the shelves first, but with others it is better to use the catalogue, where everything about or by an author may be found under his name. The subject catalogue is almost unique, the only...