Word: keepers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clear glass. Tables with reading rack and swivel chairs will give space for readers twice in number of those hitherto accommodated. There will also be ample space for current periodicals and the reference and "reserved" books. An elevated desk near the stairway will give a commanding position to the keeper of the room. There will be between the towers small consultation rooms at each end of each floor of the new stack. A door will connect the reading room with the apartment over the delivery room, affording additional space for books and readers. The old boiler room (beneath the delivery...
...women who invaded Sever Hall last Tuesday evening, and after their departure I said nothing that a gentleman might not say if he were sufficiently provoked. The provocation in that case, as in all similar cases, was that the intruders had been informed by the very civil door-keeper that these lectures are open only to members of the University. They were thus wilful intruders...
...High license is the best solution of the problem. - (a) Greatly reduces drunkenness. - (1) By reducing the number of saloons, makes better control possible, and increases profits of saloon keeper. - (2) Makes a license too valuable to risk loss of it by selling to drunkards. - (3) Makes it to saloon keeper's interest to prevent unlicensed selling. - (b) Takes the saloon out of politics. - (1) Where tried, it supersedes all other legislation. - (2) Thus liquor dealer's have no motive for united political action...
...shall be divided among members in proportion to their purchases. Sales of coal shall be counted as if made at the rate of 2 dollars perton." The method of dividing the yearly dividends necessitates a great amount of very intricate book-keeping which makes a call for a book-keeper, who is an additional expense to the society. It has peen proposed to obviate this difficulty by instituting the English system of giving checks for every purchase...
...returned home to live in a garret without either profession or income. But soon he got a position and honors flowed upon him, when the Lord Treasurer, who wanted the Blenheim victory celebrated, went to the author of the Italian letter. In 1709 he went to Ireland as Keeper of Records, but was too nervous and reticent to succeed as speaker in the Irish parliament...