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...recorded in the Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France, which through a typographical error was titled "Armenian" instead of "American" in Friday's issue of the Bookshelf, are University graduates, the book will be sent prepaid to any past or present member of the University upon receipt of application, enclosing $3.00, at the American Field Service, 50 State street, Boston, Mass...
...unusually great. The cause of these complaints is found in persons who may be grouped into two classes: the book robber and the book "hog". As regards the first, when a person has the nerve to walk up to the desk and, after forging a signature to a book receipt and writing down any address that enters his head, departs, never to be seen or heard from again, it is time to take drastic action concerning him. The same may be said for those who appropriate books from the shelves several days before an examination and do not return them...
...second class of offender may well be termed a book "hog"--an individual whose motto seems to be "Education at any price". After stating on the receipt filled out at the reading room desk that he will sit at a certain table, such a person deliberately goes else where so that when the time limit of one hour is up, he can continue to use the book unmolested, although others are waiting. Such action can not be excused on the grounds of carelessness or ignorance; it is taken for granted that students can read the few simple library rules that...
...hasten to assure the crew that we were under the impression the papers were being sent regularly. At any rate we know they will be hereafter for we proceeded, upon receipt of the wire, to direct our editorial wrath against the circulation department. Although he, the circulation department, called the shade of Burleson to witness that the copies had been mailed, we told him that we would hold him personally responsible for the safe arrival of the Crimsons...
...collection of war books and documents which is being assembled at the Widener Library for the use of future scholars in political, economic, and military history, has been swelled by the receipt from Berlin of several packing cases full of German war documents and wartime periodicals, some of them presented by Mr. Ellis L. Dresel, American Commissioner at Berlin, and other purchased in Germany...