A recent visitor to the library writes to a London journal as follows : The library at Harvard College, or rather University, is placed in a handsome structure of granite, near the entrance of the college yard. But what I want to speak of especially is the perfect management of the distribution of books. I have visited nearly all the prominent libraries of Europe and America, but I must confess that I was never so forcibly impressed with the perfection to which library management can be brought as I was at the Cambridge institution." The writer then explains the system of delivery by cards, &c., and says that "one of the greatest charms is the unfailing and uniform politeness of the attendants and secretaries." "Every one," says he, "is so attentive and corteous that I longed to be one of the privileged ones to be permitted to ask for a book."
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