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...College Library now receives proof sheets from the Congressional Library about two or three times a week, for all cards printed there, amounting to about 200 each day. Together with five other libraries it sends to Washington titles of all foreign books ordered, and receives from there cards for catalogueing all the current American books purchased...
...hard four mile races on the same, or even on consecutive days with justice to himself, and yet I doubt if he feels any worse immediately after the race than the man who has just finished a hard mile and a half. This, it seems to me, is ample proof that a mile and a half is less exhausting than four miles. Of course there is a great difference between a mile and a half and three miles, still it is after all a question of degree only. It is in the last mile of a four mile time...
...basement has been remodeled, much of the old piping and machinery has been replaced by newer material, and better accommodations have been arranged for the help. The old floor of the dining hall was taken up this summer and replaced by fire-proof concrete construction, covered with a new hard wood flooring...
...petition of the Harvard Dining Association, the Corporation agrees to advance the money necessary for building in the dining hall a fire-proof floor with fire-proof stairs and partitions at the east end; also for cold-storage and electric-lighting plants, and for ventilation of the kitchen, and to charge interest upon these advances from the end of the current financial year upon the standing debt of the association, at the rate of four and a half per cent a year...
...proposed changes, the most important and expensive will be that of replacing the present floor of the hall by one that will be fire-proof. The present wooden floor and beams will be replaced by iron beams, surmounted by brick arches with a cement covering. On this it was originally intended to put a mosaic or tiled floor, but as this would have prevented holding Senior dances, a hard oak floor will be substituted, and the expense of this will be shared in all probability by the Association and the funds of future Class Day Committees until...