Word: deskmen
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...present state of affairs in Boylston is truly a desultory one, as all parties, agree, including the deskmen, one of whom wonderingly remarked, " . . . . But the things they write in the books!" And yet authorities sit passively by, spending extra money on replacement of reading matter while dullards in marking up pages often obliterate words and letters to change the author's meaning. Though every precaution is taken to prevent the stealing of books, the University passively allows them to be destroyed...