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...groups will use, as a text-book, "The Uplift of China," by Arthur H. Smith. The classes will meet once a week, beginning the first week after the mind-year period and continuing for nine weeks. Upperclassmen who wish to attend the groups should leave their names at Phillips Brooks House with one of the graduate secretaries...
Each year the members of the graduating class take away with them or dispose of in other ways books that would form a considerable text-book library. If each Senior would gave to the Union library one such book in good condition, a very appreciable and useful collection would be started. a special class bookplate could be put into every book so given , and the name of the donor inscribed. Beside affording an opportunity to men to show their appreciation of the Union, action of the Senior class in this direction would materially increase the value of the Union library...
Before showing the stereopticon views Professor Lowell gave an introduction in which he criticised methods of instruction in the sciences. Progress in science is necessarily a generation ahead of the text-book knowledge of its day, for the minds that conceived it must first have grown up to make possible its begetting. To impart such to the generation that follows is to up it as speedily as possible in the way of making its step forward...
...clothes collected will be sent to worthy charitable institutions and the magazines will be distributed among hospitals, reading rooms, and charity homes. The text-books will be added to the text-book loan library in Brooks House. The books used in the larger courses such as Government 1, History 1, and Economics 1 are most needed...
...text-book loan library, which the present collection aims to increase, has time and again been shown to be of real assistance to those students who cannot afford to buy all the books required in their courses. In contributing either clothing or books, men can feel that they are doing the greatest possible good for the exertion and sacrifice required. Those who recognize unimproved opportunities for public service can find no easier way to acquit themselves than by generous gifts to the Brooks House clothing and text-books collection...