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Many freshmen said they had carefully studied the Harvard Handbook during the summer, and decided from its descriptions what they were going...
When cancer cost her her own vocal cords in 1944, Mrs. Doehler not only taught herself esophageal speech but set about perfecting methods of teaching others. She has written a standard handbook on the technique (it has just been translated into Japanese), and has taught no fewer than 1,300 laryngectomees herself, mostly at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary...
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...success of Streetcorner Research in reducing juvenile crime by doing research on it has prompted Slack and Schwitzgebel to write a handbook called "Reducing Adolescent Crime in Your Community". The book tells how and where to set up a research laboratory, how to staff and finance it, how to get the boys to attend every day, how interviews are conducted with the tape recorder, ways to get the boys started on other activities--such as making sound recording equipment for the laboratory--and how to evaluate scientifically the influence of the laboratory in cutting crime...
...Lewis Carroll Handbook, by Roger Lancelyn Green, lists no fewer than 561 memorabilia on or by the enigmatic Oxford don. The Alice adventures and The Hunting of the Snark have given the language a host of full-blooded words such as chortle, galumphing and burble. Learned Carrollian treatises include farfetched Freudian analyses, one of which purports to show that Dodgson suffered from a "reversal of unresolved Oedipal attachment." In the untidy, inventive White Knight, who of all Carroll's characters is the only one who shows affection for Alice, scholars see a self-caricature. Some commentators think that...