Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instructor in English composition Barrett Wendell was probably the foremost of Americans. His textbook, which has generally supplanted the old rule of thumb volumes that made composition one of the dryest of studies, is itself an entertaining literary work. He has endeavored, with considerable success, to make writing a pleasure rather than a task...
Professor W. E. Byerly's "Calculus of Variations" is the first of a proposed series of small volumes dealing with mathematical subjects of special interest to physicists. "Genetics and Eugenics," by Professor W. E. Castle '93, is a textbook for students of biology and a work of reference for animal and plant breeders. "The Order of Nature" is a thesis by L. J. Henderson '98, assistant professor of Biological Chemistry in the University, which seeks to reconcile scientific conclusion with the results of philosophic thought. A. B. Lamb, Ph.D. '03, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Director of the University Chemical...
...fairly expensive volume of lectures sold at the rate of 100 a week for a period of more than twelve weeks; a study in economics has been widely distributed not only among libraries and professors but also among manufactures in the United States, England, Germany, and Japan: a medical textbook has been adopted for use in several of the largest medical schools in the country...