Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Book production in the United States for the year 1917, according to returns just completed, reached a total of 10,060 titles, a falling off of 385 from the count for 1916. The absolutely new books of the year were 8,849, as against 9,160 for the year before. American authors, who furnished 8,430 of the books of 1916, contributed but 8,107 to the lists for 1917. Imported books fell from 1,648 to 1,324 in the two-year period of comparison; American prints of foreign works rose from 367 to 629, this increase being accounted...
...University Overseers are men of conspicuous social standing, but the proportion of intellectuals among them in slight. This statement is made by Professor Maurice Caullery of the Sorbonner in a book dealing with the universities and scientific life of the United States...
...says in his book: "The Harvard Overseers, in fact, are, above all, men of conspicuous social standing; the proportion of intellectuals among them is slight, and many regret it. This merely expresses the fact that the dominant concerns of the graduate body are not of the intellectual order. They deeply love thier University, interest themselves in its prosperity, provide for its material support with the utmost generosity; but in the memories of youth which attach them to it the intellectual interest plays only a part that is effaced...
This year the finals have taken on a new aspect. We are going into them with more of an interest because of the war. That blue book in chemistry means more than simply poring over a mass of material. We are not thinking quite so much about the grades, but are rather desirous of getting more out of the course itself, because we realize that in this respect we are to be of more value to our country. It is not materially different from the idea that makes a man try his best to please his commanding officer, partly from...
...news bulletin from the National Y. M. C. A. War Work Council states that "the book stores of France and England are being ransacked in order to supply the American soldiers in France with reading material for the winter. Owing to the fact that the supply of English books in France is small, arrangements are being made to secure a large number from England...