Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...organizations. The prestige which the addition of the nation's educators will give the Federation of Labor is not to be ignored. It is a significant fact that that organization is pushing this movement to the limit. But unless our professors see an advantage in refusing to read a book or give a lecture whenever the Federation of labor chooses to call a general strike, it is difficult to see how the profession itself will gain from such an alliance. A federation of teachers unassociated with labor organizations ought to be able to reach their goal without encountering the real...
...Universities have decided that the Latin phrase-book is too hard for the American brain. It is difficult and unnecessary. The real reason that our Universities are throwing over Latin is that Latin has been badly taught, and it is easier to throw Latin over than to bring in good teaching. But what a calamitous state for the learned...
...Books are equipped here for our returning troops as well as for those who have been going overseas," said Dr. Mawson in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, "and these must often be secured at very short notice to supply a transport leaving more or less suddenly. The reason we require so many more books is that they don't last, for whereas in public libraries a book may pass through the hands of 30 borrowers before it is worn out, in the Library War Service-especially on shipboard,-a volume rarely outlives the handling by five different persons...
...hands are very full just now providing for the home coming troops and for those still abroad in the Army of Occupation. But our chief work at present is the providing of all kinds of prospectuses on possible trades for soldiers just being discharged from the army, and such books have already done wonders in helping men to decide on what form of employment they like best. In pursuance of this idea, we are placing on practically every transport that starts back from the other side a special book we have gotten out entitled 'Your Job Back Home...
...suggest that it was contributed in all seriousness from the Transcript office. Excellent, too, is the life of General Edwards which may, one would hope, suppress the possible appearance of the half-dozen volumes of biography which seem destined to appear in defiance of sweet reasonableness. The Book Page is weak; but the Churchman Afield, particularly its notes, would not be despised by Mr. Leacock. The account of the War is in the Transcript's best manner, though it probably shows rather more historical knowledge than the Transcript is wont to display...