2600 People a Day, 200 an Hour, 3 1-3 a Minute, Climb Up and Down Widener Library Steps--Except on Saturdays

Theatrical competition on Saturday night produces a marked decrease in attendance at the Library, according to records kept during the last four years by the doorkeeper at Widener. At least that seems the only possible cause for the small number of students who study there on that evening.

According to the doorkeeper, the average number of people entering the building during the 13 hours of each week day is 2600, and on Sunday which seems to be an unpopular day for studying, there is an average attendance of 700 men.

But it is on Saturdays during the football season, and especially in the evenings that the effect of outside attractions becomes most apparent. An average fall Saturday produces only 1500 visitors to Widener, and in the evening the ordinary attendance of 600, drops to 150.

During all the years since the building was constructed, only one man has been locked in when the doors were closed in the evening. Last year a graduate student went to sleep while reading back among the stacks, and did not wake until the night watchman came along on his rounds and aroused him. The watchman used his key to open the door and let the sleeper out. Since the stacks are patrolled all through the night there is only a very slight chance of any one's remaining in the building long after the doors have been closed.