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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Phillips Brooks House Association has issued a call for more books for the Text-Book Loan Library. Any contributions of books which their owners no longer care to keep will be welcome. The books will be loaned upon a small deposit to students who can not well afford to purchase them, and upon the return of each book all but five cents of the deposit will be refunded. More than 150 men made use of this library last year...
...members of the class in Company Administration are required to procure the text book "Army Paper Work," (now at the Co-operative Society) and bring these books with them to Emerson J at 7 P. M. Wednesday, the 13th inst. P. W. LONG, Captain and Adjutant...
...they once stopped to think the whole show would be given away, so they never stop to think. Yet the play is charming, with its odor of jockeys and horse-racing, baronets and bachelor apartments, epigrams, good bad women and other pleasant things now out of date. True, the text now contains motors cars, and a subway, but imagine these characters in them! Oh, those were delightful days when you could drop in on my Lord So-and-So any evening at midnight, and be sure of finding four members of the aristocracy, full of good breeding and bon mots...
...cannot see any reasonable excuse for eliminating this study. Some objections have been brought against it because text books often include passages that may arouse a latent love for the Fatherland, but this is not a sufficient cause for condemning the tongue. On the other hand, important reasons necessitate its retention. In the first place, many scientific and historical works used by the whole world were written by Teuton authors. Although the committee does not prevent men from studying these, yet it discourages younger scholars from reaching this store of knowledge. In the second place, men who know German...
...This department of the Union has proved very popular in past years, since in proportion to the number of books, more students have used this library than Widener itself. In addition to files of current periodicals and of all publications connected with the University, the Union library furnishes many text books, reference, and reading books used in various courses, and a large collection of standard literature...