Word: checked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...striving to check their tears...
LAST Saturday afternoon two overcoats were stolen from the Library. To prevent any more thefts a check-boy has been placed in charge of the coat-room...
...system of giving checks for hats and coats which has just been introduced at the Library is a much-needed improvement. It is a matter of regret that such a system should be needed, but if persons who visit the Library will insist on stealing hats and coats, it is better that something should be done to prevent them. Last Saturday afternoon some individual coolly walked off with two fifty-dollar overcoats; how he did it is a mystery, as he must have passed in full view of the attendant at the desk and all the persons in that part...
...which the Dining Association had during the year 1876 - 77 has tended to increase the popularity and stability of the Association. He regards the weak point in the organization to be the liberty of withdrawing from the Hall on a full week's notice, and he proposes as a check that any member who should withdraw at any time except the end of one of the three periods for which term bills are made out should be charged for the remaining time one third of the cost for board. Now what to the President seems weakness must seem...
...last year was the election in open meeting of a large committee of fifteen or twenty, who should report nominations to the class. In this way a calmer discussion could be obtained, the responsibility could be definitely placed, and if the committee should act in an unworthy manner, a check could be administered through a vote of the class...