Word: taker
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Parliament injured the landlord by sending him to London, where he tried to live up to the scale set by the English aristocracy, and in a few years ran into debt beyond recovery. The tenant supplied all the capital while the landlord merely held the position of rent-taker and did nothing in return. Because of this system there arose an insane competition to get land. The tenant offered more than he could pay and in a few years was bankrupt and evicted. In this way the price of the land increased out of all proportion to its value...
...library this year. It seems difficult to believe that these thefts are the acts of Harvard men--but the attendants have all along assured us that such is the fact. Taking this as true, may I suggest what seems a practical remedy. At present the attendant--Presumably the care-taker of the books,--has his desk at the extreme end of the south room, at which point his view of the exit is cut off by intervening partitions and book shelves. Why not move the attendant's desk to the large open space just in front of the exit? This...