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Word: counter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...book has to be sent for by a messenger from the Library, he is also subject to a charge of twenty-five cents. On Saturday afternoons reserved books may be taken out at 5 P. M., except that those books which are kept behind the delivery counter are not allowed to go out until after 9 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reserved Books May be Borrowed at 9 | 11/10/1908 | See Source »

...state of affairs is not conducive to systematic study and the avoidance of the all too prevalent tendency of putting off until tomorrow what we do not have to do today. More standard editions are badly needed, if our weekly reading is to be more than a bargain counter rush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACK OF STANDARD BOOKS. | 5/7/1908 | See Source »

...meeting of the Union House Committee held yesterday it was decided to discontinue the lunch counter in the Union. Hereafter members desiring lunch or soda outside of the restaurant hours may obtain it by ordering from a bellboy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Lunch Counter Discontinued | 3/1/1906 | See Source »

Although the self-interest, the culture, and the social ethics of modern times are causes of the partial disappearance of brutal religious persecution, the equally powerful counter forces--passive curiosity, and contemptuous interest--are frequently met with. The former, attitude, characteristic of blase travellers in pursuit of novel experiences, is directly opposite to the spirit of the traveller St. Paul, whose benevolent sympathy yearned for the enlightenment of his brothers. The latter spirit is often found in missionaries who adopt a fashionable contempt, often disparaging and villifying the people whom they are pretending to raise. It is their narrow mindedness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Noble Lecture Yesterday | 2/27/1906 | See Source »

...dinner will be required. About 25 extra dinner tickets are still left, but all the luncheon tickets have been sold, and a large number of applications remain unfilled. Because of this unexpected demand a light luncheon will be served from 10 till 8 o'clock at the lunch counter downstairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Open to Yale Men Today | 11/25/1905 | See Source »

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