Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course a methodical person would keep a list of books lent with the borrower's name in line. But, alas ! what generous soul is methodical-the ready tendency to lend a book is proof that a man is ready for all risks. Nor will a well-kept list make our borrowers honest. If a man steal your book, you may recover it if you can prove the theft : but what is to be done with him who always-yes, always-is intending to return your precious volume? Your inquiries are met with ready promises of restoration ; he will bring...
...inspection will be of interest to all,-members and outsiders. Besides an assortment of toilet and fancy articles, there is a good selection of Christmas cards, calendars and the like, and a full line of stationery supplies. It must be remembered that as this stock will only be kept till the latter part of next week, members should at once make their purchases. The Cooperative is peculiarly fitted to be a medium for the purchase of Christmas presents, in that books of all kinds may be procured at a great reduction through its agency. We earnestly advise all to take...
...front places in spite of those in the rear. As it is now, the end of the game is lost to many who are anxious to see it, which is of course a great injustice to them. And in view of the fact that, if the seats were kept, more could see the game advantageously than if a portion of the spectators move forward, there seems to be no reason against compelling those who care to witness the games to view them from the seats...
...Americanism, it is necessary to show that (1) it is of so called "American" origin,-that is that it first came into use in the United States of North America; or that (2) it has been adopted in those States from some language other than English, or has been kept in use there while it has wholly passed out of use in England...
...unfortunate, especially since the new cover seems to be much inferior to the old in every way. Now that the publication has passed into the hands of the college, we notice one gratifying improvement, that the advertisements which used to mar the back part of the book have been kept out altogether. This has the double advantage of making the book considerably less cumbersome, as well as getting rid of so objectionable a feature. The number of students connected with the college proper is given as 972, showing a gain of more than forty over last year; the whole number...