Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...difficult to get a book which we want without waiting a long time for it. Probably few books taken from the library cannot easily be read in two weeks; and those which cannot be returned at the end of this time might be renewed, by giving in a new slip at the library. In this way books would not be kept out long after they were read, merely because men are too lazy to take them back. And if it were not necessary to present the book itself at the library, the inconvenience of renewing would be very slight. Those...
There is a stereotype-plate, from which impressions of a set form of petition, with blanks for date and excuse, may rapidly be printed off. The student writes upon a slip of paper his age, college class, the address of the superintendent of the Sunday school which he attends, and his mother's maiden name. He drops this into a little box; below is a sealed compartment in which are one thousand assorted excuses; turning the crank of the machine, the proper excuse drops...