Word: theft
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Where are the books in the reading rooms going? Faster and faster the volumes of prescribed reading are disappearing from the shelves in Massachusetts Hall. It is useless to preach here upon the pettiness of such theft; the men who are selfish enough and small enough to purloin the books are beyond the reach of exhortation. But in the interests of the Library and of future students in these courses, the kleptomaniacs are asked to return them, at least after the examinations for which they were borrowed are over. Undoubtedly the library authorities will receive them thankfully with "no questions...
...most recent instance of theft is the disappearance of a number of overcoats that have been found in pawn shops. The guilty persons have not yet been apprehended, but it is such cases that are never lost sight of by Yard police until the blame is fin ally and irrevocably fixed. Another case against which there is a general warning is that of a negro who is peddling cigars about the rooms. The cigars, it turns out, are consistently smuggled. The peddler of the articles will be taken into custody as soon as his whereabouts is reported...
Through the efforts of the Yard police rifled goods are often recovered and this is especially true in the case of bicycles. The theft of these is sometimes resorted to by more or less desperate characters; one of these was recently captured after a long chase. The Yard parrot not only shows its efficiency in this director but it has been most successful in the rounding up of practical jokers. The patrol is hindered by the lack of undergraduate co-operation and considering that in the end the students are the victims, they should give more attention to this matter...
...Leonard Hatch '05, of Thomas Hardy's like-named story of Wessex, and "Ygraine of the Hillfolk," a poetic drama by R. E. Rogers '09. The first tells in humorous, racy and exciting fashion of the escape from prison of a fugitive who is to be hauged for the theft of a sheep. The second is a story of revenge set in the Viking days with an injured woman as the central figure. The dates of the performances remain unchanged...