Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...examinations are closing there are probably left on many shelves a large assortment of text-books that will never gain be used. Here, out of sheer inertia, they are allowed to accumulate, or taken for a trifling sum to a second-hand book-store; yet could their owners realize the value of them for the educational work carried on by members of the University, they would perhaps be willing by this slight sacrifice or display of energy to assist the work to which others are giving so much of their time. There is at this time particular need...