Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday's writers will do well to read Alan Seeger's "Message to America." written on the battlefields of France, one verse of which reads...
Vice-President: Lloyd Kirkham Garrison '19, of New York, N. Y.; Duncan Hicks Read '19, of Purchase...
...offended if named by an ugly and descriptive term. And yet their actions are neither more nor less than thievery. When a man takes a book from--the Library shelves under cover of his coat, or in his bag, he is robbing every other man who may wish to read that book...
Shall we borrow or shall we buy books? In impressive fashion the British are this month raising the issue by a movement for the revival of reading on the purchase basis. They have found that in a population of 45,000,000 there are not more than a few hundred thousand people who actually buy the books they read, while of the remainder there is reason to believe that a considerable proportion do not habitually even borrow books for reading. And it is to move the public to a better showing that a "national book fortnight" is being observed...
...with astonishment that I read an article in the New York Times of Sunday last in which the writer claims that the rowing authorities of Yale have under consideration a proposal to change the distance of the annual race with Harvard in June from four to three miles. I may state that the article in question contains the first news that the Yale rowing authorities have had of the Yale rowing authorities have had of the proposed change. But the Times does not rest content with its Sunday article. In the Monday edition, under the heading of 'Comment on Current...