Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front cover...
...city of Canton. These books have been rotting because of the ravages of white ants, and those of worms. Some of the leaves are filled with the tiny holes made by the destroyers. The one of the books in the worst condition has about half of its cover eaten away, while the remainder is perforated with the holes left by the little beasts. The pages and sheets of the volume are in equally bad condition, being almost half destroyed in some cases. One of the interesting insertions in the consignment book is labeled: "Invoice of champagne elder shipped on steamer...
...that the reading period is going into its third year, many of the old abuses are fortunately being slowly obliterated. The fact that it has been made shorter this year than previously should permit the instructors in charge of courses to cover their required field without having to require the routine work in the time theoretically to be devoted to personal research. Another interesting change has been effected in English...
Instead of forcing the men in the course to distribute their work over a diverse selection of required books, everyone is to be allowed to select a pertinent subject in a field of wide range and cover it in the manner which he may see fit. In addition, it will not be necessary to spend half of the reading period preparing a written report to assure the instructor that the work has been done. If this plan is carried out as it has been set forth, a few more of the bonds of preparatory school methods will take another step...
...kind in the United Kingdom. Punster Sydney Smith, its first editor, aimed "to erect a higher standard of merit, and secure a bolder and a purer taste in literature, and to apply philosophical principles and the maxims of truth and humanity to politics." The Review was originally Whig; its cover, buff and blue, always proclaimed its old faith...