Word: loans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House Drive for books to add to the Text Book Loan Library will start today. A large number of collectors have been appointed and will make a room to room drive between today and Friday, June 12, when the drive closes...
...Loan Library is in great need of old text books. Over 1700 were given out this year and the demand has far exceeded the supply. Science books are especially needed...
...officers of the Phillips Brooks House Association announced last night that they would conduct a drive for books to add to the Text Book Loan Library, beginning next Monday, June 1 and ending at 5 o'clock on June...
This is the first time that a book drive has been carried on by Phillips Brooks House. It is made necessary this year by the enormous demand which has been made on the Loan Library. Over 1200 books have been loaned out this year and requests for books continued long after the supply was exhausted. The drive is being conducted at this time because students have completed their courses and have no further use for their text books. Lawrence Coolidge '27, Librarian, stated last night that, "We know that there are a great many books thrown away or lost...
...Loan Library has been a startling success ever since it was inaugurated. Men who feel the financial burden of buying the innumerable text books required in college courses have been enabled to take books from the P. B. H. library in the beginning of the year at a charge of 25 cents and on returning them in June have received 20 cents back. But the library is not limited to text books. Books of every nature, not necessarily used in college courses, form an important part of the library, and will be gladly received this spring in the course...