Word: used
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desire to use the discretion here given, you are requested to report to the Secretary, before February 1, what exceptions you wish to be made in the application of the above rules...
...subscription toward a new building for the Divinity school yielded $33,-828.21 in 1885-6. Strikes in the spring of 1886 delayed the commencement of work upon the building so much that the school will have no use of it during the present academic year. The society for promoting theological education has already contributed $10,033.91 toward this building, and is likely to give more still. The other subscribers, with one or two exceptions, were persons connected with the Unitarian denomination...
...preceeding year it was increased by 12,442 volumes, and on the average of nine years past by 8085 volumes a year. It numbers about 240,000 volumes and about 233,000 pamplets. Five thousand five hundred and six volumes beside the reserved books, were taken out or used in the library during the year, but in this enumeration, if the same volumes were used twice, it counted for two volumes. These figures show a part of any great library is used in a manner which figures can record' On the most favorable interpretation, not one book in four...
...Gore Hall, plank sidewalks in the yard and an elevated railway to Boston, which the authorities can not furnish all at once on account of the lack of available funds, we must not lose sight of the fact, that in the great and complicated whole, the university is, to use a technical Greek phrase "just booming...
...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...