Word: nelson
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Freshman proctors traditionally tell their charges they could be expunged for stealing books from the University's libraries. Nobody seems to have told Jeff Nelson, a graduate student in American History, that tale. Over the last year, Nelson allegedly has managed to remove over 3000 volumes from Widener and other libraries into his office in Van Serg Hall. A University decision on how to treat the case is expected this week...
According to the Adams Club Directory of Harvard Historians, which is put out by the graduate students in the History Department, Nelson has been writing a thesis entitled, "Beyond the Lockean Paradigm: Ideology and the Established Order in England from the Glorious Revolution to the American Rebellion...
...Nelson is widely considered to be one of the most talented graduate students to come through the History Department graduate program in several years...
University and library officials will not disclose how the theft occurred or was discovered, though sources say the overflow of books in Nelson's office--many of which were his own, including quite a few new publishers' review books--may have easily caused enough curiosity to cause someone to report them...
...unidentified friend of Nelson's said last night that among the books "impounded" by the library were "a vast number" that are Nelson's personal property...