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...that British bookstalls were selling H. G. Wells's Outline of History like hotcakes, in cheap, weekly, paper-covered installments. Mr. Crawley decided to put the world's knowledge between paper covers and sell it by mail order, saving busy students the trouble of going to a bookstand. He spent three years lining up bigwig educators to write the lessons for him. Then he was ready to send out a weekly periodical called The Popular Educator, each issue containing about 30 lessons in as many subjects, at 25? a copy. A subscriber starts with issue No. 1, gets...
...soon as this building is under way the corporation of the university will attend to the remodelling of Gore Hall. The old reading room will be altered and additions will be made to convert it into a bookstand, relieving the present overcrowed one and thus making room for the great number of books which are constantly being added to the library...