Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Many students cannot afford to purchase the larger dictionaries and as they desire to avail themselves of the greater advantages for study which these works offer, they naturally go to the library to use them. But now one cannot use a Lexicon unless he stands before a rack and holds his books while he studies and meantime he is keeping numerous others waiting...
...what is the object of having these books in the library if it is not for students to use? It was a common sight last year to see twenty-five or thirty men using the dictionaries and there is no plausible reason why such men should not be accommodated...
Surely the donors of these books intended them for the students' use and it is only the duty of the library authorities to grant us this privilege rather than to put the books away to mould, leaving but one dictionary on the reference shelves...
...presents attractive and varied articles. The graduate contribution, by Mr. H. P. Bowditch, is a thorough discussion of the question, "Is Harvard a University? The writer inquires "can Harvard at present be properly termed a university? If not, are changes of organization or method, which would justify the use of the term, desirable? It so, what are the character and extent of these changes?" In answering these questions he shows that Harvard does not correspond to the types of English, French or German universities, but he does not seem to consider that she may stand between the English and German...
RICHES.- If you desire them no use fooling away time on things that don't pay; but send $1.00 at once for magnificent outfit of our Great New Stanley Book. If book and terms are not satisfactory we will refund your money. No risk. No capital needed. Both ladies and gentlemen employed. Don't lose time in writing. "Step in while the waters are troubled." Days are worth dollars. Address B. F. Johnson and Co., 1009 Main St. Richmond, Va. 79 3teod...