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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needy students and the remainder sent to charitable organizations in Boston and Cambridge, besides a case sent to Mr. George P. Hayes, the representative of the Harvard Mission at Hobart College, Constantinople. The magazines have been given to the United States Merchant Marine and the books placed in the Text Book Loan Library. From this library over 1,000 books have already been drawn and from the Law Loan Library over 200 books have been lent...
...Text Book Loan Library at Phillips Brooks House is open daily during the mid-year period from 12.30 to 1.30 o'clock. It is requested that books borrowed for courses for the first half year be returned during those hours. Books for the second half year may also be procured. The library will be open during the first week of the second half year on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 12 to 1.30 o'clock, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 to 11, and 1.30 to 2 o'clock...
...certain number of professors here-abouts have a most curious and annoying habit of changing their text books nearly every semester, even when the courses offered remain essentially unaltered from year to year. This tendency is particularly noticeable in courses where the text book has been prepared by the professor himself, though it is by no means confined solely to them...
...apology offered for changing text books is that the course must be kept up to date, but it is doubtful if the excuse is entirely a legitimate one. Naturally, if the work in any department is to assume the most modern aspect, an occasional change in books must be made, but the practice of switching from one text to another can be overworked so easily that it hardly deserves encouragement...
...that members of the faculty use the same old text year after year, whether it suits their purpose or not, for some changes would be decidedly welcome at any time: we merely suggest that they would be doing us a distinct favor if they would endeavor to avoid undue fickleness in their choice of books for class work. --Michigan Daily