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...suffering from this sort of illegitimate use. Twenty-seven of these volumes have since been returned, but 26 are still absent from their places. A recent examination of the shelves shows that 12 volumes in addition have disappeared since the Christmas vacation. The committee has been unwilling to adopt stringent measures for protection, feeling that the most delightful element in the use of the library is its freedom of access. By placing the attendant's desk near the entrance door, it has tried to check the removal of books; but with our present staff it is impossible for the attendant...
...attention several cases of men who have been using the Union although not members. That an abuse of this sort is fairly widespread there can be no doubt, for the means taken to exclude non members are entirely inadequate. The question as to whether or not more stringent means should be adopted has been much discussed, but the inconvenience to regular members of a careful police system has outweighed, in the minds of the committee, the importance of trying to find out who all these offenders...
...year? We have, to be sure, a debt of $70,000 on the Stadium to pay off, and many improvements to make on Soldiers Field. Undoubtedly if we wish to apply strict business principles to this case, the thing to do is to adopt at once the most stringent economy and thus pay the debt and make the improvements at the earliest possible moment. But the Athletic Association was organized to further sport, not as a business enterprise. We can better afford to discharge our debt and make the improvements a little more slowly than to injure...
...hold out to the police. According to the Committee of Fifteen, "Sunday trade is exceedingly important since the retention of regular custom on other days depends frequently upon it." The privilege of keeping open on Sunday being then so vitally important and valuable, it is apparent that the more stringent the orders from headquarters to close the saloons, the greater the motive the saloon keeper has to pay blackmail. This is further shown by the experience of Mr. Roosevelt. In the Municipal Affairs for last December, Mr. Jerome said: "I am satisfied by careful investigation that the only result...
...John Koren, in his lecture last night on "Wisdom and Unwisdom in Liquor Legislation," said that the trend of the wise liquor legislation of the future would be in the direction of local monopolies, established by local option, for the control of the liquor traffic under stringent restrictions and with practically no private profits...