Word: purloin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Where are the books in the reading rooms going? Faster and faster the volumes of prescribed reading are disappearing from the shelves in Massachusetts Hall. It is useless to preach here upon the pettiness of such theft; the men who are selfish enough and small enough to purloin the books are beyond the reach of exhortation. But in the interests of the Library and of future students in these courses, the kleptomaniacs are asked to return them, at least after the examinations for which they were borrowed are over. Undoubtedly the library authorities will receive them thankfully with "no questions...
...that these two libraries are so little used? Hardly more than one hundred of the members of the Union enter the library in a day; and many of these seem to think themselves privileged to mutilate or purloin the books. Less than fifty men use the Warren House Library per day. Both could accommodate many more...