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...some day he will vanish from our midst and we shall see him no more. The old fable will be realized and the remorseless influence will drag him away. Another will take his place, but all that is picturesque and all that is mysterious will have vanished from our life...
...important book in the library, the many who do not happen to be in the course which claims the privilege of exclusive use of the book are forced to either go without or suffer the inconvenience of long waiting for the restoration of the book to its ordinary place. Some books, it is true, that are on the reserved list, have been duplicated for general use, but not all, as should be the case. The value of the library as a circulating library is perhaps fully as great for the purposes of practical study and general culture as its value...
...shall make an active canvass of all the classes. As soon as enough subscribers have been obtained to assure the success of the project, a meeting of the subscribers will be called to effect a permanent organization and to take any other measures which may be necessary to place the reading room on a firm basis...
...Where a large crowd frequent one room, as is the case with the library, there must be more or less noise and confusion; but in a separate reading room reserved for the use of a few students, these drawbacks are reduced to a minimum. As Prof. White intends to place a number of reference books in the room, the student will have most of the advantages of the library combined with the quiet of his own room...
...system was abandoned for a few years, but was subsequently adopted again in a more complete form. The development of the elective system and written examinations has gone on side by side, the latter being necessitated to a high degree by the former. When lectures began to take the place of recitations and the courses became larger, it was found necessary to abandon the old plan of marking upon recitations. Thus it will be seen that there has been a decided move in the right direction, and it is not wholly outside the range of probability that some system...