Word: borrowed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eighty-eight shell met with a serious accident day before yesterday. The freshmen will probably borrow the seniors shell for the rest of the year...
...College Library with its wonted promptitude in adjusting itself to beneficial suggestions, has had slips of paper printed, serving as book marks, which request those who borrow books in great demand, to return them in one or two weeks, as the case...
...days later I take the pains to borrow Snodkins' note-book, and study well the pages between the hard-worn covers. First, I am pleased to find some writing, "Hollis Holworthy Snodkins, '85, 57 Mattworthy, Camoridge, Mass.," all of which doesn't seem to me to be very important, until I have discovered it repeated on most of the subsequent pages. At times it is mostly "Snodkins, '85," a phrase terse, but so full of meaning! Or, again it is "Snodkins, '85," with, conspicuously near, a reference to "p. 199," or "p. 299." I look up the first reference...
From the advance sheets of a series of papers soon to be published, containing the college reminiscences of a graduate of '75, we borrow the following extract, which seems to be particularly pertinent at this time of the year, when the long series of class and society dinners is about to be inaugurated. "And no account of the social life of a Harvard undergraduate can be complete which fails to lay due stress upon that most enjoyable of all customs, the Harvard dinner. It is with surprise that the senior looks upon the picture in whose frame are carefully stuck...
...parallel reading. Especially has this become the practice in many of the history courses, which are among the largest and most popular in the elective schedule. One of two alternatives for carrying out this reading must be taken by a candidate in such courses. Either he must buy or borrow for himself all these books, or he must make use of the library. The former method is the better for those who are able to afford it. When, however, important references are given to several large books, and these form parts of sets of several volumes for each work...