Word: dead
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Century -- "Is the Moon a Dead Planet?" Professor W. H. Pickering...
...Harvard to be far behind in library equipment, though leading all in number of volumes. The committee has sought to obtain from those most concerned information particularly in regard to three points: The relation of the special reference libraries to the central library; the possibility of separating "live" from "dead" books; the probable expediency of enlarging the present building as compared with erecting a new building...
...regard to the second subject, the expediency of dividing "live" from "dead" books, no radically different method from the present one is recommended. Careful consideration is given of the relation that the Library should have to other libraries of Boston and vicinity...
...meeting of the Weld Boat Club last night the Constitution was revised, the principal amendment being the removal of the article which created the governing board of undergraduates, this article having been a dead-letter for several years. Owing to the resignation of W. M. Welch '02 from the presidency of the club, the following new set of officers was elected for the rest of this year: President, L. B. Wehle '02; vice-president, S. H. Wolcott '03; secretary, H. Minturn...
...awkward gesturing and clumsy postures. The whole discussion turned on the question of the possibility of enforcing the excise law. By the affirmative it was maintained that Major Low was bound to enforce these laws legally and morally and by every consideration of expedience. That while there were certain dead laws on the statutes which could be ignored, the excise laws commanded immediate enforcement and that non-enforcement meant a return to Tammany rule. The case of the negative rested on two main points--that Mayor Low is justified in not enforcing the excise law, first, because the conditions make...