Word: deferements
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...which prevents students from taking periodicals from the Library. The theses in many of the courses require the use of the English reviews, and frequently at the hour of closing the Library a student has to stop in the middle of an article, and thus he is compelled to defer his work at least until the next day. While we can see the necessity of keeping periodicals in the Library during Library hours, we think that all magazines should be placed on the same footing as books of reference; and we earnestly hope that some change will be made whereby...
...intellect not. Age only adds wisdom to his boundless store of learning. AEsop's fable of the aged Lion and the Ass is just as pertinent to-day as ever. The old Lion is not helpless quite yet. It would have been prudent for the Ass to defer his insult a little longer. He has been too precipitous...
...these in any definite way is but too evident to the man of average ability. For this reason a student's first step in real life is the foundation of his library; he collects about him works on whose authority he can rely, writers to whose judgment he can defer. His next course is to acquire a superficial knowledge of this extended encyclopaedia, so that when necessary he can lay his finger on the right volume and page, and name his authority; the larger his library grows, the greater the knowledge he has at his service. He does not store...
Again, as many of those engaged in writing for the work have expressed a desire that its publication should be postponed for a few weeks, it is therefore deemed advisable to defer the publication until the latter part of the vacation, and arrangements have been so made. The value of the book, it is believed, will be so much increased by this step as to make amends for the delay...
From want of room we are obliged to defer notice of other books, from the same publishers, until our next number...