Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handbook of the Germanic Museum has just been issued by Professor Kuno Francke, Professor of the History of German Culture, Emeritus, and Honorary Curator of the Germanic Museum...
...more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...
...This and following quotations are excerpts from Sargent's handbook, American Private Schools...
...Harvard Handbook, Editor, Frederick Flather '23, Business Manager, A. M. White '25, proved not only a help to old students, but almost a necessity to many bewildered freshmen who scarcely knew where Harvard Square was. Also, the Handbook gives the Freshman his first conception of undergraduate organizations, and an understanding of what activities he is best suited for. The success of the Handbook can be measured by the demand for the edition. Many men kept applying for copies long after the supply was completely exhausted...
About one-third of the contributors to the "Mechanical Engineers' Handbook" are college professors. The remainder are largely practising engineers affiliated with the government or with special companies...