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...text of the agreement was drawn up by a Committee of Nine, representing the University, Princeton, and Yale, and approved by Presidents Lowell, Hibben, and Angell. The University representatives on the Committee were Dean C. N. Greenough '98, Dr. R. I. Lee '02, and Mr. Stephen Galatti...
...objects the undergraduate, "I want Appleton's 'Greek Philosophy'. I am not interested in books in Chinese or Aramaic. I have an examination day after tomorrow, and there is only one copy of the text book in the whole library. There are eight applications in ahead of mine, and if I wait eight hours I will only have the use of the book for one hour. Why does the Library have only one copy of some of the most common books...
...answer states that the University has not funds enough to buy so many books. The Library, judging by the present, is stocked to suit the angler in research: Those who wish for the ordinary text books in the more popular courses must buy them, or read for an hour at a time the single copy provided by the University's appropriation and reserved in the Main Reading Room. In most courses, it is true, there are other copies, but their number depends entirely on the generosity of individuals. None of the money set aside by the University...
...demand for clothing from the Brooks House continues to be great. All clothing, overcoats, shoes, magazines, and current text books can be used to advantage...
...book business about the Square. This is by no means a proof of lack of undergraduate interest in books, rather, insofar as it bears at all upon the subject, it is a tribute to the discriminating taste of the students. For, useful as the Heath series of modern language text books may be, or convenient as the Everyman edition certainly is--in the classroom--no true bibliophile wants his bookshelves lined with such text-books. It is altogether fitting that they should be disposed of at the closing of the course in which they are employed and it is equally...