Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TICKETS to the Art Club Exhibition of Etchings, which will take place in a few weeks, can be obtained from the officers of the club. Season tickets will be for sale at the exhibition-room...
...those who habitually clip from the newspapers in the Reading-Room whatever items or articles happen to attract their attention had but a faint conception of the inconvenience to other members which is caused by the habit, I am sure they would buy a copy of the paper desired rather than mutilate a paper of which they are, by no means, the sole owners. A sees something in the Advertiser or Herald or World that he wants, and he cuts it out. Soon afterward I, B, hear of the article, which is, in all probability, general interest to Harvard students...
...such petty thefts occur only occasionally, the members will endure them with a patient shrug; but if, on the other hand, two or three men persist in habitual thieving, they ought, when detected, to be summarily ejected from the Reading-Room and thereafter deprived of its privileges...
...speak calmly of the petty thefts of members; but when I see a fellow who refuses to pay two dollars a year for the support of the Reading-Room deliberately spend the mornings over the new papers, thereby depriving members of their own property, - more than that, when I see him cut out pieces from the papers and pocket Scribner's, my voice rises in "righteous indignation...
...this service he may charge the tenants not exceeding twenty dollars each a year where two tenants in a room employ him, and not exceeding twenty-five dollars a year where only one tenant in a room employs...