Word: sourcebook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first glance, The Placebo Effect bears a daunting resemblance to a hardcover sourcebook for a cognitive neuroscience course, with its nine MLA-referenced essays and smattering of graphs. Based upon materials presented at a three-day conference that was sponsored at Harvard in 1994 by the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative, the collection would certainly function well as a supplement to the coursework of any History of Science concentrator. For students of the humanities, Harrington delivers just enough of the promised interdisciplinary exploration to illuminate the placebo mystery without drowning the reader in technical terminology...
...opinion page of a daily newspaper should be a forum for the most relevant issues of each day, and while lines at the sourcebook store may prove an inconvenience to our student body, they are of laughable import in comparison to the sometimes damaging habits of alcohol consumption at universities...
Officials of Harvard Printing and Publications Services (HPPS), which took over the sourcebook stockroom this summer from the Science Center management, say the lines have not been longer and claim the forms are necessary to comply with copyright law. According to HPPS Director James Gill, HPPS did extend its hours and hire five temporary employees to accommodate the rush...
Still, these moves do little to mitigate the inconvenience of purchasing a sourcebook. Wasting an hour queuing up or being forced to do without assigned readings until lines shorten puts students...
HPPS clearly has had mixed success thus far. We trust Gill will indeed take steps to shorten sourcebook lines before spring semester rolls around, in the dead of winter...