Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...French, German, Romance or Indo-Iranian Departments. Cards of recommendation, signed by an instructor, should be presented at the College Library, where cards admission will be given out. As the books are regarded as reference collections, to be used only in Warren House, it will not be possible to borrow them for night...
...best work. He is left-handed, has a good delivery and good control, but his arm is not particularly strong. Foster is not so speedy but has better control. Galbraith depends upon a slow ball; his delivery is puzzling. It is very probable that the 'Varsity pitchers will be borrowed for the more important games. Simpson is the only catcher out at present. Before he came out it was necessary to borrow a catcher from the 'Varsity or Freshman squad...
...long time no attention was paid to exterior things, to landscapes for instance. Bernardin de Saint Pierre and Chateaubriand were the first to describe landscapes. Then writers and painters came to be allied. Diderot wrote his "Salons"; literature began to borrow some of the methods of art. Changes in the life of races began to be the subject of study...
...uniforms of the Newton team, which had been sent by express, did not arrive in time for the game, and so after a long wait the men played in whatever suits they could borrow. Before the game was over it began to grow dark, and finally time was called in the middle of the eighth inning. This was on the whole fortunate for Harvard, for Newton had already scored three runs with two men out and was knocking the ball in every direction...
...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. No man has any right whatever to injure and deface property not his own. And no man would mark up a book borrowed from an individual if he expected ever to borrow another from the same person. It is the doing of a comparatively small number of men who are thoughtless, or careless of the rights of others,- some of whom may be in the habit of annotating and marking their own books...