Word: loan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Return postal requests for text books for the Text Book Loan Library in Brooks House have been sent out to Seniors. This library has been a source of considerable aid to a large number of members of the University who find it difficult to purchase all books needed in their courses. The serviceableness of the library has been seriously limited, however, by the relatively small number of volumes it contains. It is hoped that the usefulness of this depository will be considerably increased at this time, and the committee will gladly call for even a single volume, or, if preferred...
...Text Book Loan Library at Phillips Brooks House, a great number of the students in the University find a very material aid in their College work. There are kept in this collection copies of as many books as possible in which reading is required by the instructors in large courses. As no special provision is made for purchasing such books, they must be gathered from men who are willing to give for this purpose the books which they no longer...
...early Italian engravings which have been on exhibition in the print-room in connection with the special loan exhibition of Italian paintings have been replaced by a selection from the etched work of Rembrandt. The Rembrandt drawing which was purchased some months ago for the Museum is still to be seen in the print-room. The etchings shown with it illustrate Rembrandt's treatment of all manner of subjects, some mere sketches, others finished with studied care. They show his technique at different periods of his career, pure etching, dry-point used in connection with etching, and dry-point alone...
...clothing will be sent to charitable institutions, and the magazines will be distributed among hospitals, reading-rooms, and charity homes. The text-book loan library is also supplied by books received in this collection...
...case elsewhere, so that many fail to notice its existence. Although its activities are many and varied, they are in the main connected with social service work outside of the University, upon which branch of its administration it is to be congratulated. The excellent text-book loan library, which is largely patronized by the students, the use of the House for the University teas and Bible classes, and its association with the Chapel Committee form its principal internal connections with the College. Opening the rooms for the use of the undergraduates will bring the House into a little closer touch...