Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Library of Congress in Washington. In the spring of 1913, however, an opportunity presented itself whereby the Law School now stands among the first of american institutions in the collection of South American juris-prudence. The opportunity came through a trip to South America by Dr. Lichtenstein on a book hunting expedition for another institution, since he agreed to buy whatever books he could for the Law Library. Dr. Lichtenstein has now been in South America for over a year during which time he has visited all the republics and has bought for the Law School complete, or nearly complete...
...placed at the disposal of the members of the Senior class three hundred and fifty copies of his work, "Defenseless America." Seniors may obtain a copy free of charge, by applying to Matthews 7. A similar distribution is to take place in the Law School and Medical School. The book is on sale to the public at two dollars a volume...
...numerous other explosives and ordnance improvements. He is at present heavily interested in this work. Is there no connection between this fact and the free distribution of a work, the sole purpose of which is to advise a radical increase in military equipment? Is it significant that this book, prepared and distributed at great expense to the author, should contain in its first chapter a vigorous and lengthy assertion that "private manufacturers of war materials should be encouraged by the government"? If Mr. Maxim's motives are above question, he has, to say the least, put himself in a position...
...University's critics frequently cry loudly that Harvard has forgotten its inclusive character and gone into one camp or another. Several years ago a book appeared by one John Corbin, in which one chapter bore the ominous title, "Harvard, a Germanized University." And periodically the idea crops out that by some metamorphosis our older universities have been transformed from "good old English" institutions to narrow "single-aim" laboratories for academic research. The fact is that Harvard, as President Lowell pointed out at a meeting of graduate students last year, owes something to the educational systems of all the leading nations...
...this year's Red Book there are several innovations, of which the most important is the individual photographs of each member of the class. This feature, usually confined to the Senior Album, will add greatly to the value of the Freshman book. Besides this more pictures of general interest are being published. It is further possible that the book may be bound in leather, but this has not been decided...