Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...excavations at the Argive Heraeum. He taught classical art and archaeology at Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, as well as serving as professor in the American School at Athens. With the late Richard Norton '92 he was engaged in the American excavations at Cyrene in North Africa. Professor Hoppin's "Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases," recently published by the Harvard University Press, has attained high rank among the authoritative works on Greek archaeology...
Plans are being made by the Phillips Brooks House Association for the publication of the Handbook next fall. This book, which is sent free by mail to all members of the incoming Freshman Class before the opening of College in the fall, is a guide to all the activities of the University. It contains a map of Cambridge, and describes the work of the various undergraduate organizations...
...local charities, which will be carried on as usual, in spite of the decrease in the University. The Phillips Brooks House also keeps up a Text Book loan library which has proven so valuable in past years. An information bureau for new students, and the Harvard Handbook are financed from the fund, as well as certain religious meetings which the Phillips Brooks House holds every year. Entertainments are held in the poorer districts of Boston and boys clubs are promoted. Teaching staffs are maintained at the Prospect Union, and at the Cambridge branch...
...Among the various branches of this service are included the maintenance of a Text Book Loan Library, the encouragement of religious meetings under the auspices of the societies in the University devoted to that purpose, the support of an information bureau for new students, the publishing of an annual handbook, the furthering of Boy's Clubs in the poorer districts of Boston, and the provision of teaching staffs for Prospect Union, the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. and other social centres. The extent of these social service activities is proportionate to the support given by the student body...
...Harvard Handbook, published by Phillips Brooks House and compiled by A. F. Tribble '19 and R. Little '19 may be obtained here. The booklet contains information concerning the University, the calendar for the College year and all undergraduate activities. It is distributed gratis to all new students...