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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hapgood's first book was "The Literary Statesman," published in 1897. He followed this at intervals of two years with biographies of Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. In 1911 "Industry and Progress" appeared, the subject of the book being indicative of the new trend which his interests were taking. For it is towards the improvement of existing social conditions and woman suffrage, that his activity has been directed in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELL-KNOWN EDITOR TO TALK IN UNION TONIGHT | 12/13/1915 | See Source »

...human beings. The sex hunger, the desire for food and clothing the passion to understand ourselves and the universe in which we live--these are the chief motor impulses of our race, and the third is the most inclusive of them all. Religion is not the creation of a book or priests or governments of institutions. It springs out of the heart of our human kind; it issues from the deep centres of human fears and joys, human terror and helplessness, human aspiration and insight. Its reality and authority are as veritable and undeniable as the experience which produces...

Author: By Dr. A. P. fitch and President ANDOVER Theological seminary., S | Title: MINISTRY NOT SUITABLE FOR SCIENTIFIC MIND | 12/11/1915 | See Source »

...pointed editorial article and three readable but not very skilful book reviews conclude a creditable number...

Author: By L. B. R. briggs., | Title: Monthly Approaches Standards And Ideals of Its Founders | 12/11/1915 | See Source »

...Brick Row Print and Book Shop, recently incorporated by a group of Yale graduates, desirous of offering undergraduates the chance of forming a discriminating acquaintance with old books and prints, was informally opened at New Haven early in the week. Some 200 undergraduates and about 25 members of the faculty were present. Professor E. B. Reed of Yale outlined the prospective growth of the new shop and its many advantages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BRICK ROW PRINT AND BOOK SHOP" OPENED AT NEW HAVEN | 12/10/1915 | See Source »

...American student, according to Professor Reed, has never been able to enjoy the privilege every foreign student possesses: the opportunity to find old books for himself, to browse about shelves untroubled by a clerk at his elbow. Although students here are as fond of reading as those across the sea, there are no counterparts in this country of book stores near Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BRICK ROW PRINT AND BOOK SHOP" OPENED AT NEW HAVEN | 12/10/1915 | See Source »

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