Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with frantic appeals to subscribe to this and that periodical. Upperclassmen are halted by young and inexperienced canvassers and besought to lend financial support to institutions of which they themselves are officers. Elderly and nervous professors retire quivering within doors to turn out another chapter of The Great American Textbook. Even the President and Fellows take their walks abroad with their coats but toned and their hands on their socks...
...Brooks House textbook loan library will be open for the rest of the week. Designed to benefit those who cannot afford to purchase textbooks, it contains the works in Latin, Greek, French, German, English, Mathematics, and the sciences which are generally prescribed for the second half-year...
...irrelevant to remark, in passing, that one of the great needs of Harvard University is a school of journalism; one that could rank with those of Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Michigan. But to return to the subject in hand. With a view to its use as a textbook, Mr. Basian's work is divided into five parts, dealing respectively with "Newspapers and News", "Reading Copy", "Headlines", "Makeup", and "Pictures, Sunday Newspapers, and Routine". The text, in true journalistic style, is clear, compact, and interesting. Every point made is carefully illustrated by examples, chosen with great care from leading American...
Arabia Deserta was first published in 1888 by the Cambridge Press in a limited edition, priced at ten guineas. Its fame increased for years among a small circle of experts, an abbreviated edition was published, and, during the War, it became a military textbook, used by the British in their operations in the East. This is the first complete, reprinted edition...
This general attitude of mind finds its complete expression in the Higgins " Patriotic Textbook" Bill in the Legislature of the State of New York, which provides for the censoring of textbooks in history by the elimination of statements uncomplimentary to the Fathers. That bill is generally supposed to have the backing of Messrs. Hylan and Hirschfield, and its purposes and probable effects are too clear to require demonstration...