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That system has proved eminently successful. If a volume is lost, the head librarian compiles a list of all men who are entered in the course which uses the book. Undergraduate assistant librarians are then despatched, armed with keys, to make a thorough search of the quarters of the course members. The investigation is carried out independently by the assistants: there are no officers of the University present; the tenants are not consulted. During the current year, the House in question has recovered every missing book...
From a strictly legal point of view, the undergraduate has no grounds for complaint. The University owns his room; the tenancy contract stipulates no guarantee against search. And if there were desperate need for such a general search, if it were carried on by an officer of the University in the presence of the tenant there could be no justifiable ground for any objection. But the example of other Houses demonstrates that lost books can be successfully recovered without recourse to the general search. It is, furthermore, inexcusable to permit irresponsible undergraduates covertly to ransack a fellow House member...
...method of general search must not be confused with that more specific means of recovery which is used when the assistant visiting a room in order to secure a volume for which the occupant signed during the preceding evening. In this case there is definite responsibility, and such a method is essential to good library management during times of stress...
...Pouncing without search-warrants, police began a campaign of bursting into homes and meeting places of Communists all over Germany, ransacking them for treasonable documents which they claimed to find in quantities. Communists retorted by firing from rooftops and darkened windows on their tormentors, caused the Berlin police to create "searchlight squads." Before the week was out 26 Germans-Communists, police and Fascists-had been murdered for reasons purely political (mostly in savage side-street affrays...
This first question be answers, as the majority would, in the negative, claiming that the high-school graduate of today is, if anything, more stereotyped and dull than his predecessor. If this is true, or even partly true, the search for the leak must be elsewhere. Mr. Mencken finds this cause of waste in the growth of special classes for the backward and in the large number of various sorts of experts which infest every modern school. Actually, there is another and even worse cause for growing expenditures: this is the movement towards a large number of courses in every...