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...important branch of the work of the committee is the clothing and text-book collection. Two of these are held every year, the fall collection this year being particularly large...
...program laid out by the War Department for such a corps. The work, according to this plan, will consist of two hours a week, the first to be devoted to theoretical instruction, the second to practical work. The Engineers' Manual as issued by the War Department will be the text-book used. No official uniform will be worn by members of the corps until the decision of the War Department on the corps' reduced schedule is received. The field equipment necessary for the course has been issued by the War Department through Captain Downing, U. S. A., who has charge...
Phillips Brooks House Text-Book Collection...
Tomorrow the text-book loan library of Phillips Brooks House will make a collection of old books, to be used by students who cannot afford to buy all the volumes they need. There is hardly a man in the University who has not some books which in days past have caused him trouble, but which might well do some other man good. He can at once rid himself of the reminders of bygone distress and contribute to the education of coming generations by enlarging the Brooks House collection. He can, it is true, wait until the end of the year...
...talk is all right," or "it's nobody's business." Collegiate life in general can bear improving. In a university, if anywhere, ideas should creep into the conversation. And the value of talking, when mind meets mind in frank communion and keen interplay, can be compared favorably to text-book study. The undergraduate could learn more of the satisfaction one feels when he can truly say, as Dr. Johnson said (and Stevenson quoted), "Sir, we had a good talk...