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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge of B. L. Kilgour '27, is being held this week. The following places received boxes of clothing: Industrial Aid Society, Family Welfare Society, Cambridge Welfare Union, and Cushing Academy. Besides the 1522 articles of clothing collected, there were 440 books and two tons of magazines. About 90 text books were placed in the loan library, and 150 were sent to the American Merchant Marine. Besides this, 200 obsolete editions from the Text Book Loan Library were sent to the same organization...
...Genre THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS?G. W. Morris and L. S. Wood?Oxford University Press ($1.50). An ideal, if limited, text book on the rise of the British Empire with a chapter on the U. S. Obviously a "young people's" book; but, because it is simple, direct, treats of principles rather than facts, it is of unusual interest and a new and better genre of history...
...later. From 1884 to 1886 he was professor of modern languages at Earlham College 1nd and for the next three years he was professor of Germanic languages at Indiana University. He joined the University teaching staff in 1889 as Assistant Professor of German Professor von Jagemann is author of text books for the study of German and of numerous articles on the Germanic and Romance languages...
...publisher of the magazine, a well known Cambridge tutor, has vigorously defended in his introduction to the first issue his action in putting the periodical before undergraduates. "These following translations," he says, "have been prepared with great care. They follow the original text literally thus forming a valuable and legitimate help to the student in his effort to master the difficulties. The use of translations is recommended by numerous educators. They deplore that a student's time should be wasted in eternal thumbing of vocabulary and grammer. The use of correct translations guarantees correct solution of idioms and quick insight...
...nicest eyes and the longest thin fingers, some artisans in papers and inks and types have redecorated an older poet's younger pantheon. When the veils are drawn, there is crimson chiseling. When the angels speak, their celestial words are of the blue of Heaven. The rarified text - five acts of lofty verse - is for high thinkers, telling the tragedy of imperious Lucifer, who sought to sustain his soul by tugging at his spiritual bootstraps...