Word: librarian
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...University, 75% of the respondents conceded that the price reforms were beneficial, but more than half also said that they would prefer having their salaries frozen. Just as revealing was the response of a worker who visited a Peking library after a stop at the vegetable market. When the librarian suggested that he read a book on the new economic reforms, the man replied heatedly, "I just paid 28 cents for a cabbage"--a hefty sum for someone who may earn $30 a month--"and I don't need any book on the reforms...
...know Sidney Verba: University Professor, University Librarian, and former assistant dean of the College. Well, now there is a new title for Sid Verba: one of the "Tweediest Professors" in the nation. According to M Magazine, Verba is among eight scholars who clothing most typifies the term "Tweedy...
...know Sidney Verba: University Professor, University Librarian, and former assistant dean of the College. Well, now there is a new title for Sid Verba: one of the "Tweediest Professors" in the nation. According to M Magazine, Verba is among eight scholars who clothing most typifies the term "Tweedy...
...know Sidney Verba: University Professor, University Librarian, and former assistant dean of the College. Well, now there is a new title for Sid Verba: one of the "Tweediest Professors" in the nation. According to M Magazine, Verba is among eight scholars who clothing most typifies the term "Tweedy...
DIED. Robert W. Henderson, 96, librarian and sports historian who worked at the New York Public Library from its opening in 1911 until 1953, the last ten years as chief of its vast main reading room; in Hartford, Conn. The author of monographs and a book on the history of ball games, Ball, Bat and Bishop (1947), he was an early and authoritative debunker of the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839, contending that the origins of the U.S. national sport go back many centuries and that the game had been played in recognizable form since the 18th...