Word: text
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...semi-annual collection of books for the Phillips Brooks House text book loan library will be held early next week. Any text books for which owners have no more need will be welcomed, since the loan library is supported entirely by voluntary contributions. The library has proved of great benefit to many students, over 200 having already taken advantage of it this year. Books which are required in the larger courses are especially desired, and men are asked to have them ready when the collectors call...
Professor W. A. Neilson, of the English Department, will hold a conference on the history of the text of Shakspere and the characteristics of the successive editions in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock...
...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...
...energy to their subject and the best means of imparting it to others. Efficiency based on knowledge is nowadays sought more eagerly than wisdom, both by the professor and by the student. The result is that the instructor has become to the student more and more of a speaking text-book, rather than a human being whose friendship is to be cultivated...