Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library authorities have determined to permit no longer the use of dictionaries at the tables for assistance in translating. These are put on the delivery room shelves with other reference books, for such use as can be made at the shelves. The authorities intend also to prevent the continuous use of the manuals and texts in study, and in the class rooms...
...deemed to be the proper function of the library to furnish books for such protracted use...
...EARLE.The Y. M. C. A. wishes to receive contributions of cast off clothing, shoes, rubbers, books, and c., fer use in missionary work among colored people at Talledga, Alabama, in charge of Frederick Reed, (Harvard '82). All who can contribute anything please send postal to J. B. Lewis, 67 C. H., or A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell place. A prompt response will enable us to make one shipment before Christmas...
...looks at the future, not last, but first; he holds the door open. Every man in his little way stands between the past and the future, the old and the new. In the life here a man has the advantages and collected thought of the past systematized for his use, and in the face of this beneficence he feels humble. His hope that he may deserve this is in his attachment to an unknown future, when men shall see the light and know the truth better because of his life. This is not a time of achievement but of preparation...
...utterly impossible to do satisfactory work on rowing weights that are so far gone that they cannot be made to offer the slightest resistance, and which, therefore, men cannot possibly handle as they would an oar. These winter months are too valuable to be thrown away; the crews that use them to the best advantage always show it in the class races, but it is perfectly evident that work on such machines as those which are at present in the rowing room, will not enable any team to do itself justice...