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Buying required books may not be an unpleasant rite of the new term, but it is certainly a financial strain. Students who build their libraries discriminately often try to cope with the high costs by reselling texts they no longer need and buying second-hand copies of presently required texts. At present this means facing the unpleasant experience of being offered 20 to 30 per cent of the retail price they originally paid for a book, and charged 67 to 75 percent for a correspondingly well-preserved text...
...citizens are those which protect them from bodily harm. There is no such danger in travel to Cuba; Cuba, unlike China, welcomes American visitors. Freedom of movement is a necessary corollary to freedom of speech, to the freedom to be informed. The democratic process cannot thrive entirely on second-hand news reports and government press releases. Americans must have the liberty to go where they want to, when they want to. travel to Cuba will come inevitably, and it will come...
...Brattle Book Shop itself is a cavernous, four-level building which contains some 350,000 second-hand and antiquarian books. Brick catacombs, piled high with dusty volumes including occasional lost rarities, are ranked along the walls of the basement. The windows of the shop are cluttered with newspaper clippings, engravings, pamphlets, and books "which made Cornhill famous." In front of the shop are stacks of dime "bargains" and on the floors and several thousand feet of shelves inside are heaped books and articles of virtually every conceivable category...
...gone from the modern book store," the Brattle's Gloss complains. "You might just as well sit home and order by catalogue." The bargain prices which make books available to those who could not otherwise buy the intrigue and the romance of antiquarian shop, Gloss contends, make the second-hand book stall of special consideration...
...purpose of the fellowships, which will be offered again next year, is to phasize increased research on Latin America. "We want students to find out themselves instead of merely getting the material second-hand from courses," explained William S. Barnes, assistant Dean of the Law School and director of Office...