Word: books
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There are 100 extra Senior buttons at Leavitt & Peirce's. All who wish buttons must call today, as more than 100 men have signed the blue-book...
Many students have in their possession books purchased for college courses, books which they will not again use. These are generally sold to second-hand dealers at ridiculously low prices. The suggestion I should like to make is that these books be collected by a student-committee, brought together, catalogued and kept in some accessible building, as Phillips Brooks House. This collection might be known as the Text-Book Loan Collection, and students would have the privilege of borrowing from it books to be used in connection with specific courses, and of retaining the same until...
...might be well in each case to require a deposit equivalent to a fair second-hand price for the book, which deposit would be refunded on the return of the book in good order. A charge of five or 10 cents, however, might be deducted to defray the cost of cataloguing, and provide money for rebinding. If such a collection were to be begun now it could be in readiness at the opening of the next College year. P. A. HUTCHINSON...
Some of the advantages of Mr. Gerrish's system are its simplicity, the translation of numbers to and from the code without the use of a code book, and the possibility of detecting and correcting errors by inspection. The code itself is in reality a language of eleven words, each of which is a monosyllable of two letters. The series represents the ten digits with an eleventh character. In these monosyllables any one consonant is invariably associated with the same vowel and is never used in any other connection. The two letters thus form a combination which affords a means...
...Reid, Jr., '01 and Walter Camp of Yale will frame the rules adopted by the committee, and will have charge of issuing the rule book...