Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...vulgar error that work is evil, and the second treats as a discovery what every sensible schoolboy knows. "The better plan is to have times appointed for study as for other pursuits," is more nearly worth saying in Harvard College than it ought to be. "Time passed with a book is not always passed in grasping ideas, any more than time spent with a hook and line is fully occupied with catching fish," is worth saying anywhere...
...second lot of Senior buttons is now on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's. When this supply is used up, men may order more by signing a blue-book by Monday...
...some-what his usual warmth and charm. News of other recent graduates, the editorials, a touching photograph of the old Verdi, and an unusual one of Regen, who seems, in view of the Bach-Regen festival this summer, already to have joined the three B's, also two interesting book reviews complete the number...
...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...
Professor G. Santayana's book, used in Philosophy A, "Three Philosophical Poets" has also been published by the Press. This work is an appreciation of Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe. Among the other recent publications are, "The Lodging House Problem in Boston," by A. B. Wolfe who obtained the material for his work by a two years' stay, as Harvard Fellow, in the South End House, Boston; "Applied Ethics," by Theodore Roosevelt; "Public Ownership of Telephones on the Continent of Europe," by A. N. Holcombe; and "Banking Reform in the United States," by O. M. W. Sprague...