Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent accession is the culmination of a two years' book-hunting expedition to South America by Dr. Walter Lichtenstein, formerly connected with the University Library and now librarian at Northwestern University. Dr. Lichtenstein was in South America from August, 1913, to December, 1914, during which time he was a joint representative of the John Crerar Library of Chicago, of the Northwestern University Library in Evanston, Ill., and of the University Library here in Cambridge. He made a complete tour of all the principal South American cities...
...close. Baseball players of the University have been extremely slow in organizing for the series this year, which will be held immediately after vacation. For the past four years 25 teams have played for the trophy, and this year less than a fourth of that number have signed the book...
...Sylvester Peabody '16, of Malden, has been appointed captain of the second tennis team. As the first game being arranged for the team is on Wednesay, April 28, it is necessary to hasten the trials. Therefore all men wishing to try for the team must sign in the blue-book provided for the purpose at Leavitt & Peirce's before 6 o'clock this evening. A tournament among those who sign will be begun tomorrow and finished on the Tuesday before the first game...
Tickets at 25 cents each for general admission may be obtained at the H. A. A. Office, Leavitt & Peirce's, or the gate. Season tickets, which may be bought at $3.00 each at the H. A. A. Office and Leavitt & Peirce's, and the regular H. A. A. ticket book will admit to the grandstand. There will be no reserved seats...
...striking analogy is furnished by the case of the University Register. Up to this year the book had been a financial failure, the outstanding indebtedness having reached over a thousand dollars. This was largely due to non-competitive methods of management. The issue for 1914-15, however, was managed on a purely competitive basis; and the result was a larger and more complete volume and a net earning of more than four hundred dollars. No stronger proof of the value of competitive methods could be adduced...