Word: lent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the drive for clothing is coupled a special request for text books, which will be placed in the Text Book Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House. Every year several thousand books are lent at the rate of 10 cents a volume for the year, and many more are required if this important branch of Phillips Brooks House is to flourish. The following organizations will take care of the old clothing collected and distribute it among the poor of their districts: Associated Charities of Cambridge, Associated Charities of Boston, and the Red Cross...
There are three more days left in the drive for text-books which the Phillips Brooks House Association is carrying on. All the books which are obtained will be placed in the Text-Book Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House, where they will be lent to students in the fall. During the past year over five hundred books were loaned by the Library...
...Phillips Brooks House Association, for the collection of text books no longer needed by students in the University will open, and will continue for one week. All the books which are obtained will be placed in the Text Book Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House, where they will be lent to students in the fall. The campaign is being carried out under the leadership of E. L. Peirson, Jr., '21, Librarian of the Association...
...mercenary hordes of Lampy, driven to doom by their officers, were mowed down by the CRIMSON crew and at the end of the contest the score board read: CRIMSON 5, Lampoon 4. All of the CRIMSON runs were earned; the Lampoon quota was merely lent to them for the afternoon by its generous opponents. From the moment when the Lampoon twirler pitched over the backstop for the first strike of the afternoon, the outcome was never in doubt. The CRIMSON infield was absolutely tight, and Lampy's punch was of no avail. The barrage of hits from CRIMSON bats gave...
...report on the Library, W. C. Lane '81, Librarian, records the following comparative figures on the use of books at the Widener Memorial Library during the years of 1915-16 and 1916-17: Use of Books. 1915-16 1916-17 Recorded at Loan Desk: 1. Lent for home use, 55,730 60,621 2. Reading room use, 45,415 54,233 3. Study use, 1,254 1,598 4. Stall use, 5,789 11,269 Total, 108,188 127,721 Overnight use of Reference Books: General reading room, 14,612 13,348 Lower reading room, 6,332 5,421 (formerly...