Word: used
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Gentle reader, use no other...
OVER eight hundred tickets to the Natural History Society lectures have been called for. This course of lectures is so popular that it is hoped that students will not ask for more tickets than they expect to use...
...will not be given out. The Librarian, in his Report, favors increasing the access of the students to the books; the abolition of this silly restriction on our privileges should be one of the first steps in that direction. There is no good reason for refusing a student the use of a book, except its extreme value or rarity; to withhold books because there is supposed to be something indelicate in them, - the ordinary reason, I presume, - is nothing but silly prudery. Any student who wishes to take a book out on account of its improper character will certainly...
COMPLAINT has been frequent in the past, and is still repeated, because students are not allowed to use certain books in the Library. We hear the aggrieved ones talking about an index expurgatorius, about treating the students as school-boys, and about the true purpose of the Library. Now, whatever cause for complaint there may have been formerly, there seems to be little at present. There are, as naturally there must be, some books in the Library that students should be restricted from using. There are rare copies that must be kept from all risk of loss, and costly bindings...
...following editorial on the action of the boating authorities at Cornell, from which it would seem that the Navy Directors are very much like our Executive Committee in the power they have and the use they make...