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Owing to the difficulty of enforcing the rules, infractions are becoming ever more frequent and annoying. Severe penalties have been imposed on those few culprits who have been detected, but the possibility of discovery is so slight as to encourage violations. Such was the condition at Widener before the installation of the turnstiles. If House members desire to enjoy the benefits of an informally conducted library, they must evolve some effective method of curbing practices, which, if continued, must result in irksome regulations...
...panic of 1894 its deficit was only $20,000. Ten years later it built a home of its own, supposed to insure its permanent endowment. Violinist Frederick August Stock, a German of sound musicianship whose very bearing imparted an air of stability, succeeded Thomas as conductor. There were frequent deficits but fat years always managed to care for lean...
...first full-length biography of "Old Man" Scripps, founder of chain-journalism in the U. S., appeared last month.* Its author, Gilson Gardner, longtime Washington correspondent for Scripps and his frequent companion aboard the Ohio, had every facility for making it an authentic portrait, including the insistence of his late employer that...
Four times this year, a shivering line of music lovers has braved the varied offerings of a New England winter evening for more than an hour in order to secure gallery seats to the Symphony concerts in Sanders Theater. The spectacle has become as frequent as it is vexatious and unnecessary. The inevitable inconvenience discourages many from attending; for those oblivious to physical discomfort, the wait is galling in its futility. Moreover, when the crowd is finally admitted and allowed to stand in the vestibule for a half hour before the start of the concert, its impatience and indifference...
...spectacle of a disinterested English intellect resorting to hack-writing of this sort is as frequent as it is strangely inconsistent with that "mental energy and intellectual relaxation," which Mr. Boyd-Carpenter flaunts as the chief glory of the English university. British writers and lecturers have long managed to turn a pretty penny at the expense of American passion for criticism. And Mr. Boyd-Carpenter's attempt tinctured with ignorance is equally puerile...