Word: uses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call attention to one respect in which the privileges of the library are abused by some members of the University. I refer to the habit of marking books. Many books, especially those which are reserved in the reading room, and which all the members of a course have to use, are disfigured throughout by underscorings and marginal lines, and even by marginal comments, which become in some cases little controversies between unknown critics. Aside from the distracting effect of these marks on the reader, causing him involuntarily to emphasize portions usually least important, the practice is morally wrong...
...reason: Forum, XVII, 409.- (2) In Kansas, the elections result less wisely than before women had the suffrage: Nat. Vol. 44, p. 310.- (c) The better class of women would not go to the polls.- (d) The lower classes, under the influence of their husbands and vile politicians, would use their right freely: Nat.vol. 44, p. 310.- (e) The uncounted army of women in brothels and slums would vote under the influence of money.- (f) In New Jersey, woman suffrage was abolished with the concurrence of both sexes, because her corrupt voting rendered the elections of that state a mere...
...Women do not want and would not use the municipal suffrage.- (a) In Wichita, Kansas, out of thirty-five women qualified to vote, two hundred voted in 1887: Nation, Vol. 44, p. 362.- (b) In Massachusetts in 1886, only one woman in every two hundred and fifty four could be induced to go to the polls to exercise the school suffrage: Bib. Sac. Vol. 50, p. 331.- (c) When woman suffrage was brought before the people in 1894, only one-tenth of the women of Massachusetts expressed their wish to vote...
...speaker thought that Congress should begin to retire the notes at the rate of $30,000,000 a year. With the gold which would then flow into our treasury we could pay the outstanding notes. He advocated the increased use of national bank currency. This would give us the true requisites of currency-stability and elasticity...
...shows that many members of the University are exceedingly thoughtless, or are entirely without any sense of honor. For the sake of the good name of the University we trust that the former is the case. For several years the people of Cambridge were annoyed by having the students use the sidewalks for their exercise, and last year the annoyance became so great as to be generally considered a nuisance. Complaints were made to the city government, and a request was sent to the authorities of the University asking that the students refrain from using the sidewalks for running. Steps...