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...last summer's dilapidated Brunswick and even this fall's pastel-shaded hotel are still another long jump from the elegant hostelry of 1878, when King's "Hand-Book of Boston" reported...
Estimates in the government hand-book give 20 minutes as the approximate time required for registration of each individual. There will be no University holiday, but students will be excused from absences resulting from registration requirements...
...publishing of this year's Harvard Hand-book will be in the hands of a committee headed by C. L. Allen '29. His assistants are T. H. Byrd '30, L. G. Bohmrich, ocC, L. D. Zorn '29, and R. S. Tennant...
...Phillips Brooks House hand-book for Freshmen, excellent though it is in design and execution, gives no hints for hot weather. In extreme cases, where a cool retreat in which to study is imperative, the harassed undergraduate may take a tip from the Irish ditch digger's wife, who replied, when taxed by her husband for not preparing a more elaborate supper: "What! Me slave over a hot stove and you working in your nice cool sewer...
...publication of an official hand-book would help tremendously. Mailed to the prospective Freshman during the summer, its contents could be digested thoroughly. Such a book would cover briefly the organization of the College, its history, its machinery, its educational policies and opportunities, its standards, its extra-curricular activities, its individual characteristics, in a word, the very nature of Harvard...