Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been decided to increase the staff of the University Register in order that the task of editing the book may not, as in the past, fall upon two or three editors. Henceforth three or four of the men doing the best work in each competition will be taken on the Register board. Candidates who wish to enter the present competition should report to B. P. Whitney '15, 22 Plympton street, tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock...
...committee of the Federation of Territorial Clubs on the publication of Student Interests of Harvard announces that more subscriptions are needed before the first edition can be published. The book is more comprehensive than was planned at first and consequently the cost of publication has proved greater than was anticipated. The class of 1917 is especially urged to give its support to the undertaking. In order to be successful the book must be distributed in large numbers and free of charge to all men who are trying to decide what college to enter, so as to place before them...
...Register was incorporated yesterday at 6 o'clock in order to relieve its editors of individual liability. The Register will be on sale December 10. All clubs are earnestly requested to send their lists of members in as soon as possible in order to facilitate the editing of the book. The material of the Register has been cut down as much as possible this year, but its main features are similar to those of last year...
...violates the conditions under which football tickets are being assigned will be put on the "blacklist." That knowledge is common property. But it is never realized in its full significance except by men whose names have gone into that very real, very definite, and not at all visionary black book kept by the Athletic Association with much labor and accuracy. Aside from all questions of morals and college spirit it is no whit short of blind foolhardiness that could lead a man to take the risk of having to repent at leisure, when the paltry profit made from ticket speculation...
...Andrew Carnegie [see letter in Appendix of World-Religion Sacred Scriptures] wrote: "I have purchased this book by the half-dozen several times and sent to friends." Through his unsolicited generosity the price of two volumes has been placed at the actual cost of publishing and delivery-- so that all interested in Cosmopolitan Religion and Ethics may be able to procure them. For the first and second editions of World Religion Sacred Scriptures a large number of very favorable Press and Personal Commendations were received by their publishers, George Putnam's Sons of New York and London...