Word: bagging
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...telescope canvas bag, full of clean clothes, has gone astray, probably left at wrong address. Will finder please notify W. G. Morse, 27 Grays...
...Sand Bag, D. Fleming...
...library evidently labors under a misconception. No fair-minded person could raise the slightest objection to a student's taking into the library a receptacle for his books and papers. Moreover, the library officials are doubtless well aware that books can be purloined without the aid of a bag. The request appeals to those who would make the place a baggage room...
...refer to the law which denies holders of cards the access to any of the newer stacks, although that limits the conveniences which the library affords. These rules probably have some raison d-etre. But what possible reason is there in prohibiting men from carrying their bags within the library? If a man goes to the library with a bunch of notes and loose papers, with perhaps some pamphlets and books of his own, with ink, pens, pencil, eraser and so on, all of which he intends to use in connection with his work in the library...
Prior to this the old style of apparatus was used, made by the college carpenter and arranged any way. The hanging ropes were of tarred hemp and the man who attempted to strike the rough canvas-covered striking bag was usually content with one blow. The pulley weights were swinging iron balls, unguided by rods, which swung and banged, raising clouds of dust. After a man had grasped the cold iron handles he usually found it better to hold on than to let go. After the first few day's work the weak men were eliminated by "unnatural selection...