Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missouri is not alone in its glory. The last minute filibuster must have filled page after page with brilliant irrelevance. Instead of a mere handbook for English 10, the Record might well be adopted as a general textbook and reference compendium for all academic courses. It serves for a poultry bulletin as well as for an Automobile Show pamphlet. Careful perusal may prove it to be, after all, the best thing the Sixty-Seventh Congress has accomplished...
...almost inhuman, on yellowing vellum brightened by red, blue, and gold Gothic capitals. The musty savour of the rush-strewn cubicles still adheres to a leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during the middle ages...
...writing itself, the page of book reviews is the winner; there is more truth than fiction in the discovery of poetry in a geometry textbook. "Post and Paddock" is amusing, also; and the sketches of "people we know" have the ring of familiarity and homely truth in them. But it is somewhat startling to find in the Lampoon (even thus disguised) a belated-fling at William Randolph Hearst. Himself, who has always been regarded as the Golden Calf, as it were, of the Lampoon's temple on Mr. Auburn Street...
...convenience of members of the University who wish books for use in courses in the second half-year, the Textbook Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House will be open every morning this week from 9 to 10 o'clock...
...Textbook Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House will be open every morning the first week of the second half-year from 9 to 1 o'clock...