Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scout and a pacifist. I resent the inference in TIME (July 18, p. 8) that the Boy Scout organization is connected with the army and navy. If you should read chapter one of the official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America, you would find that "the Boy Scout movement neither promotes nor discourages military training, its chief concern being the development of character and personal efficiency of teenage boys...
...Harvard Handbook, published and distributed free of charge every fall by the Phillips Brooks House Association, will be of smaller dimensions this year than previously and will also include a socket for cards and personal memoranda, it was announced last night...
...Harvard Handbook has been published for 35 years, and from its general usefulness to incoming freshman has earned the name of "Freshman Bible...
...either taken or left, neither process involving much thought; of the Advocate, prehistoric and unruffled, and of a host of other publications, there is one which unofficially welcomes the incoming Freshman and which is therefore extremely important. Like many other good things, however, the Phillips Brooks Harvard Handbook, inevitably referred to as his Freshman Bible, receives less praise than it merits...
...upperclassman, bereft of the system which bound him to his firstyear mates, wonders where the Handbook has disappeared, and why its use is restricted to Freshman. For a time he misses it-he is at a loss to discover the final date for this, the opening date for that, the time of the next rapprochement of the Harvard Dames, and many interesting minutiae which fill the pages of the book. But there is no Sophomore Bible and eventually comes the realization that the Phillips Brooks House has rendered to Freshmen the things that are Freshmen's and who-soever shall...