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THE MAROON TIGER
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Episodk One
It is the night before—night fraught with fate and
omnious with impending disaster. It is the night of
the nineteenth, the night before the twentieth. The term
paper is due on the twentieth.
Enter our hero, galloping dangerously up the library
steps about 7:00 P. M., with 5c note paper, lc chew
ing gum, and no pencil. But his erstwhile air of in
dolence and procrastination has vanished. His face
radiates strength and determination. He is a hero, a
god.
To the catalogs. Every one gives him room, for who
can check the progress of ambition and knowledge?
Madly snatching a drawer open he thumbs cards eager
ly. The drawer is shut—bang! Another is snatched
open, is shut—bang! Bang! Bang! And so on for about
twenty minutes.
Careening up to the desk, his scholarly face expresses
only the dignity and aloofness of years of study. He
has utter contempt for such a trivial thing as a term
paper. With a look of boredom at having to wait, he
hands the attendant about fifteen slips when his turn
comes to be served. And frowns vexedly when only
thirteen books are brought back. (Out? Two books
out. This service here is rotten, just plain rotten!)
But he embraces his thirteen hooks and staggers into
the reading room.
Episode Two
Twenty minutes later.. He staggers back with his
books, dropping some in his wake, and followed by
trusted retainers who recover the abused volumes and
trail him to the desk. Registering faint annoyance, he
lays down the books. (These “darn” librarians don’t
make any attempt to give you service.)
(Emphatically) “I can’t use these books. There’s no
material on this subject. I’m gonna change my sub-
ject.
Returning to the catalogs, he repeats the snatch, fin
ger, and bang procedure, only more hastily and louder.
Other patrons curse him violently and internally. The
atmosphere is blue, charged. The attendant breathes a
prayer, “Oh God! Our help in ages past.”
Again he returns to the desk with a fist full of slips.
And casts a worried glance at the clock whose long hand
is now fifteen notches past the figure twelve, while the
short one rests on eight. The librarian gives him his
books and he focusses a suspicious look on her when
he is told that one of his books is in the reserve room.
(Oho! 1 ve been suspecting it. You’re against me! You
are trying to keep me from finishing my paper!) And
piling his hooks in his arms he strides angrily away.
Episode Three
Fifteen minutes later. He argues with the reference
librarian because the library does not have volume
37 of The Literary Digest. Said reference librarian en
treats, implores, and begs to find him something else.
Even tearfully she offers to come an hour earlier in
the morning to help him. But he is wrathful and ter
rible in his outraged dignity. The attendant dries her
tears and suppresses a violent desire to throttle and dis
member him. He sees the gleam in her eyes and flees.
Episode Four
Ten minutes later. The attendant in the reserve room
explains to him for the fifth time why he must have his
card to take a book out over night.
Our hero: “Identification card? But don’t you know
me?”
Attendant: “Sure, I know you, you— but it’s the rule,
(desperately). The rule!”
Then he begins anew to search for it. Pocket by
pocket. Then running his fingers through his hair (and
it isn’t there), he returns upstairs.
Episode Five
Nine-twenty, P. M. All are leaving, including our
friend of the tardy term paper. He turns from the girl
he is with to give the attendant a cold and pitying look.
And to the girl, “Oh yes, I’ll finish it tonight.”
J. A. Hulbert, ’33.
NEW CARNEGIE PICTURE COLLECTION
Students will be interested to know that a new pic
ture collection, a gift of the Carnegie Corporation, has
been installed in the exhibit room of the library.
The collection, which is valued at $5,000, was pre
pared by a committee of specialists, the College Art
Association, and covers the whole field of art. Nearly
all of the pictures are foreign photographs of the orig
inal works of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Many
are in colors and all are representative of the best
production of many peoples—Greek, Italian, Roman,
French, German, Egyptian, Dutch, Flemish, English, and
American.
It is the plan of the library to hold frequent exhibits.
The pictures will be available for study by art classes
and for use by instructors in connection with class work
in literature, history, etc.
RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY
Abernethy, Thomas Perkins. From Frontier To Planta
tion; a study in frontier Democracy, 1932.
Adams, Mrs. Adeline Valentine (Pond). Daniel Ches
ter French, Sculptor, 1932.
Allee, Warder Clyde. Animal Life Arid Social Growth,
1932.
Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude Franklin (Horn). Adventures
Of A Novelist, c 1932.
Ayres, Clarence Edwin. Huxley, c 1932.
Berenson, Bernhard. Italian Pictures Of The Renais
sance; a list of the principal artists and their works,
with an index of places, 1932.
Best American Mystery Stories Of The Year, selected and
with an introduction by Carolyn Wells, 1931.
Best British Short Stories Of 1932 edited by E. J. O’Brien
and J. Cournos, c 1932.
Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. History Of The English
Hymn. “Our concern is with the words rather than
the music of English hymns.”—Pref. c 1932.
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