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...have abused the privileges of the Library have been so often exposed and held up to scorn that it is a wonder they, and others like them, do not take a warning. Ever since the fine system has been introduced a certain set of men have made it a business to keep books for days and even for weeks after they were due. I have been very anxious to get a certain book due February 1, but the gentleman who has it now is bound to keep it out of circulation. Several offences of a similar nature have been reported...
...real property, but I am of opinion that those only are real possessions which abide with a man after he has been stripped of those others falsely so called, and which alone save him from seeming and from being the miserable forked radish to which the bitter scorn of Lear degraded every child of Adam. The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature will defy fortune and outlive calamity. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot be alienated. "Books," says Wordsworth, "are a real world," and he was thinking, doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs...
Paul's plea "That I may know Him," was satisfied partially when, going to Damascus, he was changed from a hater of mankind to one of its firmest advocates, when he turned from the scorn and contempt of a Pharisee to the love and duty of a Christian. Then again he grew to know Chirst from studying and appreciating his life until, as the orb of day pierces the early morning mists, so he saw the personality of Christ rise through the sorrows of his life. Finally Paul grew to know Christ by serving Him; he suffered and accomplished, lived...
...least, entitled to be unmolested. The placards have been put on sale and can be obtained for a few cents. The management expects that many men will desire the placards and has provided this legitimate means for obtaining them. A grain of honor will make a student scorn to use any other means...
...individual there are two principal benefits in a truly religious life. Christian living gives a man an ability to resist the temptations of college life, and takes from him fear of the scorn of other...