Word: loan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late hour last night only 600 books had been collected, and a total of only 24 out of the 59 collectors had reported any returns at all. Unless the number of books is doubled by the end of the drive the Text Book Loan Library will again be unable to satisfy the ever increasing demands on its resources. A final automobile collection will be made next Friday, when each of the collectors will be visited, and the books which have been gathered in their rooms taken to Phillips Brooks House. Lawrence Coolidge '27, Librarian of the Association, has requested...
...Text Book Loan Library was organized several years ago by the Phillips Brooks House Association to enable those men who find the financial burden of buying the numerous text books required for courses in the University too heavy. At a cost of 25 cents, any student may take out a book in the fall and use it for the entire college year. On returning it in the spring he will get 20 cents back again...
...Loan Library has proved very popular. This year over 1200 books were loaned out and the demand far exceeded the supply. The lack of scientific books, especially those on physics and chemistry, was particularly noticeable this year...
Friends of polo in the University have enhanced the chances of the team which will represent Harvard next week in the intercollegiate tournament at the Westchester Biltmore Country Club at Rye, N. Y., by the loan of 18 polo ponies, of which number 14 will be shipped today...
...satchel instead of conveyed in the usual channels, concerning which no records were kept and having for receipt a note with its signature torn off) was "contra bonos mores," "a fraud upon the United States," "a colossal infamy regardless of whether it was a bribe, a gift or a loan...