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...nothing but silly prudery. Any student who wishes to take a book out on account of its improper character will certainly not be injured in his morals by reading it; and those who call for these books, as most students do, because they really want them are often put to some trouble and expense to obtain the books elsewhere than at the Library. We cannot conceive how any sensible person could object to a student's using some of the books that are now "caged" in the Library. When such books as the much-quoted "Decameron" and Swinburne's beautiful...
...evident. But the source of complaint lies not in these, but in certain books of questionable character which the Library council prudishly, it is said, keep under lock and key, thus depriving us of man's peculiar distinction, - the knowledge of good and evil. Some books may have been put under restriction rather hastily. Walt Whitman was in disgrace, though, to our minds, reading his verses, if a crime, is in itself sufficient penance; and Swinburne was forbidden, while Byron was not. But the list of restricted books has been carefully revised, and the number upon it is now almost...
...would be used in furnishing the new one is without foundation. Those who have the matter in charge say that all the furniture of the Hemenway Gymnasium will be new, as the old apparatus is totally unfit for even its present use, and, if taken apart, could never be put together again...
...sure, there is a course marked in the elective pamphlet as "Zoology (Elementary Course)"; but any one who takes the course finds that it is of the most advanced type. One is at a loss to know what an "Advanced Course" in the subject may be, which we see put down farther on, to be taken in case of passing (!) the examinations on the so-called elementary course...
...fellow-man. It is only the constant persecution of my brother-students that has brought me so low. Why, I even envy President Eliot's immunity from contact with the students, and think Adam must have had a jolly time until Mrs. Adam (his Eve-il genius) put in an appearance...