Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book is kept beyond the proper time, a postal shoud be sent, and the delinquent should be fined two cents, one for the postal and one for the clerical labor involved. As things are now, the library seems inclined to speculate on the misfortunes of those who use it. A third cause of complaint is the new rule which interdicts the drawing of reserved books by proxy. Every student has a right to draw books, and if he chooses to transfer his right to another, signing a written order to that effect, he should be allowed...
...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Simple as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...
...necessary. As to the complaints about the heaviness of the fines, and the rigidity of the rules concerning reserved books, they are almost too childish to deserve notice. Long experience has shown our librarians what limitations and punishments are necessary for the best good of all who use the library. The correspondent complains because a person is fined ten cents for every day he keeps out a book beyond the allotted time; he thinks he should be notified when the time allowed for the use of the book is expiring, since he is too busily engaged with other matters...
...equally trival. He seems to forget that reference books are always in great demand; if a man who takes out a reserved book is too much absorbed in self to think for a moment of the rights of his fellow-student, a privation for a time, of the use of the reserved books may help to make him a little more considerate of others...
...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Simple as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...