Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of collectors for the annual Phillips Brooks House Drive for old books was anounced last night. At the same time plans were made public for the operation of the drive...
...drive is conducted for the benefit of the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library, an institution which each year supplies a large number of students with used text-books at the nominal charge of five cents. This year, about 1560 books were loaned in this manner by the library...
There will be collections by automobile from 2 to 5 o'clock on Friday, June 4, and on Friday, June 11. Books of all kinds will be welcomed, but text books are particularly needed. The drive is being conducted by J. C. Drier '28, Librarian of the Phillips Brooks House...
...list of collectors for the drive which begins today is as follows...
...from general in the average U. S. home that the children can drive the family car much better than their parents. Father has trouble getting the gears to mesh properly in hurried traffic, and mother is eternally leaving the ignition switch unturned while the starter grinds on and on. All this is indicative of an hypothesis: young men and women have mechanical sense superior to that of older men and women...