Word: unless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME of the pictures in Memorial are getting severely baked, and bid fair to be ruined, owing to their location over registers, unless removed very shortly...
...hard-working men would really desire more than the present allowance, and they are the men the Library should be for. A student in history may want several works of, say, three volumes each, and make good use of them. At present he is limited to but three volumes, unless by special favor. If books are continually called for, it is obviously unjust to permit one man to monopolize them; but when almost all such books are retained now on the shelves, it would increase the benefits of the Library to make exceptions and encourage critical and careful investigation, which...
...that the text-book contains all that is requisite, when he thus deprives half of his division of all benefit in his instructions, except such very unsatisfactory scraps as can be obtained from those who were not called upon to write. We cannot see the object of this arrangement, unless it be to counteract the tendency, engendered by voluntary recitations, of "cutting" an instructor from whom nothing can be learned outside of the text-book, and we think such "cutting" would be placed in the list of pardonable sins...
...half of those who had taken his elective, while the other half were rendered incapable of profiting by it from being engaged in the same room in an examination, we fail to see why it is not equally unjust to explain a lesson under the same conditions, unless the explanations are regarded as of trifling importance. And if the instructor does regard them in this light, he would naturally be one of the most determined opponents of voluntary recitations...
...Directors of the Reading-Room wish us to inform the students that the custom of taking magazines and papers from the Reading-Room has become prevalent. It must be evident to all that unless the good sense of the undergraduates prevents this wholesale pillaging, some inconvenient measure must be resorted...