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...books has been sung in every age, and today, when even the smallest hamlet nearly always possesses some sort of public reading-room, it is easy to believe that this institution is becoming the corner-stone of American progress. Yet the association of the library with the despised text-book still discourages the schoolboy from spending an hour with a favorite volume. And it is here that the power of the court may be used to advantage to compel an acquaintance with standard literature...
Today is the last day of the Phillips Brooks House Annual Clothing and Text-book Collection. The wagon will call at the various dormitories beginning at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Men who have contributions for the collection are requested to leave them outside the door of their rooms, or near the door inside, if their rooms are unlocked...
...purpose of this Municipal Library, however, is not the enlightenment of public authorities, but rather to afford proper facilities for the training of Harvard students. The members of the Department of Government realize that a student cannot obtain an adequate knowledge of Political Science by merely reading somebody's text-book; the only efficient way is to afford him opportunity for work in the live material of present day administration. This is what the various courses in the Department are now encouraging the undergraduate...
...Books that have been borrowed this year from the Phillips Brooks House Text-Book Loan Library are due now and must be returned as soon as possible. Books may be brought back between 9 and 1 o'clock and between 2 and 4.30. The deposit made for the book will be remitted when they are returned minus the usual charge of five cents...
This year the clothes will be distributed to the poor through the Morgan Memorial and the Associated Charities of Boston and Cambridge. One case will also be sent to the Near East for the relief of the Armenians. The text-books will be added to the Text-Book Loan Library and the magazines will be given to the American Library Association for use in army camps and hospitals...