Word: useful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unable to use the seats alloted to him for the Harvard-Yale hockey game in New York tomorrow evening is asked to return them to the office of the Athletic Association, where they will be redeemed up to 12 o'clock today. They will then be re-alloted to those on the waiting list...
...ideal police force in New York City would be to make it independent of politics, to separate the detective and the patroling branches of the service, to reduce the graft, blackmail, and mismanagement of officials, to make promotion in the ranks depend upon personal merit only, and to use some method whereby each policeman would keep to his beat. Finally, he said, that unless the good predominates and the morartone of the majority is good, laws are in vain...
...Phillips Brooks House Association wishes to call attention to the text book library which was opened last fall, and is maintained in Phillips Brooks House for the benefit of men who cannot afford to buy all their books. It has at present between 400 and 500 books available for use, and in addition there are about 100 books which have been loaned out. The library is in the Randall Room on the first floor of Phillips Brooks House, and books are loaned on application at the office at any time between 9 and 12 or 1.30 and 5 o'clock...
...result of this rule is that certain exceptional men of great athletic ability are prevented from giving the full use of their abilities to their University. They take just as much exercise. They do not one whit more studying. They are merely restrained by this rule from the personal triumphs that are their right...
...number of men have neglected to return their books until noon or later, to the great inconvenience of other students. Unless these is immediate improvement in this respect, I shall be obliged to discontinue altogether the practice of allowing books to be taken out for overnight use, since annoyance to readers the next day exceeds the accommodation to borrowers the night before. Before taking this step, however, I desire to ask the help of all users of the Reading Room toward making the operation of the present method successful. WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian...