Word: returned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncommon to apply at the delivery desk for a dozen books and find ten of them reported missing or otherwise withdrawn. Undergraduates have been known not to return books at all, and, refusing to replace the book, have enjoyed their library privilege unimpaired. The answer, "I don't understand why the book is missing from the stacks; I put it on the delivery desk a week ago," has cleared more than one guilty undergraduate, and freed him from further embarrassment...
...obvious method would be giving the borrower, upon his return of a book, his receipted application slip. This would not only safeguard the borrower, but would also serve as positive proof for the library as to the return of the book. Furthermore, a carefully managed card file, such as is used by the H. A. A. in their issuance of tickets, would curb the now prevalent practice of undergraduates taking out more than their allotted number of books. Perhaps also some identification of applicant and library number would render the system less subject to abuse by persons who have...
...multiplicity of changes the dropping out of customs, sometimes their return the growth of new ways and evolution very striking when observed in its terminal manifestations. Yet certainly after the very earliest years a continuos core of something persists. Perhaps it is the dream of freedom and the fight for freedom necessary to the seeking of that Truth which in Latin is inscribed upon the Harvard seal. Perhaps it is the never failing presence in Harvard classes of a man or a few men who in college give promise and in later life make the promise good of signal distinction...
...news that Arnold Horween will return again next year as coach of the football team will be received with the greatest satisfaction by the undergraduate body and by the alumni. The announcement comes as a climax to a season which though not establishing any mythical championship may in every way be termed satisfactory...
...return of Arnold Horween as head coach of the 1930 Harvard football team is no surprise to followers of Crimson gridiron fortunes. At the time of the Yale game it is rumored, Horween told the players with whom he had been working during the arduous 1929 campaign that he would come back for another season and even those less intimately connected with the mentor whole heartedly expected his return next fall. Mr. Bingham's announcement was received with thunderous applause by the Harvard players and will be equally well received by University undergraduates and graduates alike...