Word: text
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual Phillips Brooks House drive for text books opens today in all the dormitories of the University, when the collectors who have been appointed will begin a canvass of all the rooms...
These books will become the property of the Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library which supplies a large number of students with used text books...
...there is any hope at all, of finding the final text of such Latin authorities as Livy and Varro, such hopes rest in Herculaneum alone. Pompeii will never give us any original documents, for the lava which buried it was porous and permitted the infiltration of water. This destroyed any papyri which may have existed. The volcanic substance which flowed over Herculaneum became so solidified that it may have preserved some few libraries...
...What we dream of being able to do is to lay hands on the library of some average Roman of medium culture. That would give us a wonderful insight into Latin literature of that time. It is not impossible that we might even find the text of some Latin popular comedies, which are known to have existed but which have never been found...
...They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported in TIME text. ¶Reading these books you will partake of the cream of this season's literature...