Word: text
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers of the Phillips Brooks House Association announced last night that they would conduct a drive for books to add to the Text Book Loan Library, beginning next Monday, June 1 and ending at 5 o'clock on June...
...committee has also decided to revise the social service pamphlet issued annually by the Phillips Brooks House to make it more into the form of a text book for novice social workers. The pamphlet will contain a thumbnail sketch of the work and aim of each house and also a bibliography of books helpful to social workers. In the latter connection the library at the Phillips Brooks House will be increased to include a special social service department...
...text, however, shall be a sentence in the earlier address: "Give to History, give to Political Economy, that ample verge the times demand, but with no detriment to those liberal Arts which have formed open-minded men and good citizens in the past, nor have lost the skill to form them." From the point of view of our time this admonition of not quite half a century ago is somewhat startling. We need not nowadays concede to history or economics any place that they do not occupy; the need is rather of bringing home to future lawyers and captains...
...contest last year at New Haven was an overwhelming victory for the Crimson, whose players sold text-books and slide rules to make the journey. Before the encounter with Yale here during commencement week, this year's team has arranged several minor games. H. T. Dunker '25, the manager of the P. B. K. team, announced last night that he is seeking encounters with other sandlot teams and solicits challenges...
...remote fastnesses of Tennessee, where a high-school professor is arraigned under that state's new anti-evolution law for having "taught evolution" from a biologic text-book previously approved by the state authorities (TIME, May 18), the forces of light and darkness ranged themselves for conflict. George W. Rappelyea, Dayton coal man and evolutionist, who preferred charges against Prof. Scopes to test the law's constitutionality, marshaled funds for the defense, announced that, in addition to many eminent scientists who had offered assistance and testimony, the services of Herbert George Wells, British outliner of history, would...