Word: books
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Langdell was famous as the originator of the "case-system" of teaching law, which has now supplanted the older text-book method in nearly all the large law schools in the country. The accomplishment of this work makes him one of the foremost of the men to whom the great advance and progress of the University during the last thirty-five years...
...record of an existence of a third of a century, the CRIMSON has issued a history of the paper and a catalogue of its editors--a book of over 100 pages. The paper has had an unbroken history since 1873, thus making it the second oldest University publication. Besides an account of its history and an alphabetical index of editors with addresses, the book includes a list of editors by classes, giving for each editor his undergraduate activities and his subsequent history...
...clothing collections were managed by D. C. Hyde '06 in the fall, and C. Woodman '07 in the spring. The first was unusually large, but the later collection was not so successful as usual, be- cause of the carelessness of many individual collectors. The receipts of books and magazines were greatly augmented by large contributions from the Union, and aggregated about three tons. A start has been made on collecting a permanent text-book library for Phillips Brooks House...
...close of each decade of its history it has been the custom of the Advocate to issue a book of the best verses from the numbers of the past ten years. Such a volume was brought out in '76, and another in '86. In '96 the book was a collection of stories. Today the fourth of the series will be issued from the press of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. This will be an anthology of verses from the Advocates of the past twenty years, and represents the best early work of such men as William Vaughn Moody '93, Bliss Carman...
...special field. The tuition fee varies from $20 to $30 in different courses, and when more than one course is taken the full fee is charged for each course. Members of the School will have the use of the University museums, laboratories, and libraries, including the text-book library collected by the Department of Education...