How times have changed

I had a professor doing research in the Faculty Minutes this week.  I would like to share an excerpt she found from April 20th, 1927.

As to conduct in the library there is distracting sociability and students do not hesitate to interrupt one another.  Much working in groups where poor students get help from the good student.  Theft and mutilation of books particularly troublesome this year.

For those who do not visit the Stewart Memorial Library often, we now encourage "sociability", group work, and for "good students" to help "poor students".  Though the library continues to discourage theft or mutilation of books (which we have little to report on) we highly encourage you to partake in these other "distracting sociabilitys".

~Sara Pitcher, Archives Assistant