Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After the Library Council has granted the students' petition for an extension of the time for taking out reserved books, we wish they would make another slight change in the delivery of books. At present the bound periodicals can be taken out as any other books and kept out for one month. The result has been that men writing theses and forensics are put to a great inconvenience because they are unable to refer to articles which bear on the subject in hand. >These bound periodicals are essentially books of reference, and should not be allowed to leave the library...
...Pardue University, Ind., a stock-barn is to be built in which choice heads of cattle will be kept, upon the fine points of which the students will be instructed. - Chicago Tribune...
...shows that the 'varsity team is still alive and that an earnest attempt will be made to pursuade the faculty to allow Harvard to be represented next year. The Yale Princeton game was so satisfactory that former arguments against rough playing are nugatory. Good work this fall has kept the foot-ball men in good trim, and although '86 will be greatly missed, we have no doubt that the new captain will form a worthy 'varsity team...
...Those are note-takers," he replied, "a modified form of a phonograph. You see everything I say is taken down by the instrument, provided it is kept in motion. The necessity of keeping the crank revolving is what insures me an audience which remains awake," and the professor smiled grimly. "A few of the wealthier students, however, own note-takers which are run by a small electric motor, and these luxurious individuals send their instruments by some friend, and save themselves the trouble of coming." - Cornell...
...exponent of an original and unique form of government whose feelings are almost lost in its advantages. Our progress is due largely to the fact that, being freed at first from an inferior form of rule, together with the obnoxious customs it carried with it, we have been kept free thus far from that form of rule and those customs...