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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton at London, in his recent Pilgrims speech (TIME, May 18), he took for granted all the Anglo-Saxon platitudes, but, "looking about for a substitute, it struck me that, building on these sentiments as an accepted fact, I might take as my text 'goods across the water' as a useful text, since phrases we must have...
...Rappelyea, of Dayton, Tenn., had in mind when he caused the arrest of his friend John T. Scopes, 24-year-old instructor in the Rhea High School (TIME, May 18, 25). It started in a drug-store conversation; Scopes told Rappelyea that he was still using a Biology text book containing an explanation of the theory of evolution which had once been approved by state authorities and not yet recalled, though Tennessee's anti-evolution act had been the law for a month. Rappelyea swore out a warrant, "to test the law." But it turned out an infectious jest...
...Phillips Brooks House Drive for books to add to the Text Book Loan Library will start today. A large number of collectors have been appointed and will make a room to room drive between today and Friday, June 12, when the drive closes...
...which has been made on the Loan Library. Over 1200 books have been loaned out this year and requests for books continued long after the supply was exhausted. The drive is being conducted at this time because students have completed their courses and have no further use for their text books. Lawrence Coolidge '27, Librarian, stated last night that, "We know that there are a great many books thrown away or lost at the end of each year and we want to collect them for our Text Book Loan Library...
...Loan Library has been a startling success ever since it was inaugurated. Men who feel the financial burden of buying the innumerable text books required in college courses have been enabled to take books from the P. B. H. library in the beginning of the year at a charge of 25 cents and on returning them in June have received 20 cents back. But the library is not limited to text books. Books of every nature, not necessarily used in college courses, form an important part of the library, and will be gladly received this spring in the course...