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WIDENER BOOK RETURN WILL WORK A LA RUBE GOLDBERG

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Students may soon be able to return books to Widener Library at any hour of the night as well as on Sundays with the help of a Rube Goldberg contraption that the Maintenance Department has been working on for a month.

If present plans prove practical, it will work like this: You slide the book you want to return through a slot onto a chute; the chute carries it to a tray; when the tray has piled sufficiently high with books, a photo-electric beam is intercepted which works an automobile jack, lowering the tray; as soon as the tray is full an alarm clock goes off that wakes the night watchman, who then empties the tray of books.

Before hitting upon the present plan, the Maintenance Department tried several others that have not proved workable.

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