Word: containing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...player perhaps a dollar. No doubt the philosopher would not rank with these today, but the twelve letters of his name will be more lucrative in time to come. Already that name means something beyond valuation, to Harvard men in particular and the books themselves, with his marginal remarks, contain wisdom and sentiment as well...
Almost 500 volumes still remain and many of these contain the personal annotations and autographs of Professor William James, the literary and historic value of which can hardly be overestimated...
More than 1000 books from the private library of William James, Med. '69, the philosopher, a large number of which contain marginal annotations by him, have been presented to the University by his family...
...moral sciences; these books have been selected, with the counsel and assistance of Professor R. B. Perry, G. '97, and Dr. Benjamin Rand '79 of the philosophical department at the University, because of the unusual interest atatching to the annotations by Professor James which appear in them. They contain numerous marginal comments and interlineations, mostly in pencil, which throw light on the development of James's philosophical ideas and on the influences which shaped his thought...
...issue in Los Angeles politics. They were ousted from the libraries of the Los Angeles public schools during the war -The Nation for being "pacifist" and The New Republic for being " radical"-and now there is a strong movement to have them reinstated on the ground that they contain data essential in the study of public affairs. Candidates for election to the School Board, which will be held in the near future, are being asked to define their attitude toward the forbidden periodicals. Neither The New Republic nor The Nation is radical in the proper sense of the word, since...