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...actions have arisen from thoughtlessness more than than anything else. No such pardonable carelessness, however, can be attributed to the men who hide the reference books. These men-and there are not a few of them-are anxious to take some popular reference book out over night. They therefore adopt the plan of coming to the Library earlier in the day, capturing the book they want and hiding it in some safe place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away the the missing volume. Some of these...
...officer which attends the court rooms daily, and by giving bail rescues "juvenile offenders" from a probation at Deer Island. A bureau of information is also established which sees that there are country homes ready, and takes charge of any cases that are reported. Sometimes families in the country adopt the children free of charge; but sometimes charges are made which the society has in a great measure to pay. $20,000 had to be paid out last year, and for this reason the society appeals for funds to all who feel at heart this responsibility of caring...
...what might he called a "natural" worker. He was the first to break away from the old idea of classification and adopt a more natural one. His clearly written books show him again as a lover of the natural. Besides being a botanist, Dr. Gray was a great thinker. He worked out the philosophy of the origin of the species even before Darwin, and Darwin called him "the first of any American in the development of his judicial sense...
...Harvard as a member of John Harvard's University, but a representative of foreign culture,-one who could exemplify to us new ideas, and give us a glimpse of methods which our independence or sell-conceit, whichever we may choose to call it, may not permit us to adopt entirely but which cannot fail to improve our own by example or comparison. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, in 1886, gave Harvard men the opportunity to have a long series of lectures by the delegate of Rome, Professor Rodolfo Lanciani. Smce then Professor Drummond has been the only foreign University...
Captain Mahan, U. S. N., whose recent book on naval history has made him so prominent, contributes "The United States Looking Outwards." It is a thought full paper urging our nation to be ready to back up the aggressive foreign policy which it is bound, sooner or later, to adopt and predicting that the islands of the Carribean Sea are the plums which all nations will soon be trying to snatch...