Word: pilfering
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...score had it not been for the loose fielding of his team mates. His battery mate, DeRham, celebrated his debut on the University nine by netting three hits in four times at bat, one of these a long home run into right field. He caught one man attempting to pilfer second base, and played an excellent game behind...
...There are no courses of study. There is much manual training, but also a supply of the R. R. R.'s. A child studies just what he pleases and in just as advanced degree as he is capable. Those who desire only a manual education are tempted to pilfer intellectual learning. Mental horsemanship is stimulated by horse-stealing rather than by gift horses. The pupils maintain their own discipline - they take two months' vacation each year at their own convenience-in Winter or Summer as they prefer. This plan keeps school equipment in continuous use. Coupled with this...
...majority of libary users are gentlemen of honor, a detective force should hardly be required to make the building usable. Rules are necessary; but the Library rules are conspicuous by their brevity and leniency. They are not intended to be obstacies in the path followed by those who pilfer books, hide in the corners of the Reading Room, or deface the College's property; they will not hinder the men without honor. The value of a law is chiefly that it sets up a standard of right and wrong. There can be no that the majority of undergraduates observe...
...Associates, of Boston, Mass., recently elected the following officers: President, Daniel J. Shea; vice-president, Joseph Daly; secretary, Thomas F. Gallagher; treasurer, Frank J. McCarthy." What deep-laid conspiracy the "Harvard Associates" may be plotting is not known; neither are the motives of revenge which induced them to wilfully pilfer Harvard's venerable name. But the outrage of the act is none the less flagrant. Perhaps the Howard Associates will prosecute them for infringement of trade-mark...