Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That night I read three pages of the Christian Science textbook (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy) and had no trouble in reading the fine print. The next day I went to work and have worked ever since. In a few minutes time my life was changed from discouragement to joy and light and happiness, and gratitude is mine and will always be so long as I live...
...admit there is a case of influenza here. Every case I have seen has been a neglected cold which is not the textbook idea of influenza. Goodness knows, we have had an explosion of some sort here...
Unless the heads of the various courses correct this situation by themselves, it may become necessary to set up some powerful agency for textbook approval throughout the college. Such an agency would be a decided irritant to temperamental instructors, but the present inefficient laxity leads inevitably to such a solution...
...introduction of a textbook by McIsaac and Smith in Economics A, must have greatly boosted the business of the tutoring schools. This book might be intelligible to an economist, but, for students in an elementary course, it is as clear as federal income tax regulations. Difficult subjects can be handled in clear, lucid sentences, but clearness is not one of the virtues of the book. It should be removed from next year's reading list and replaced by one that is more comprehensible...
Sentence after sentence in the book is long, and ambiguous. The statistical analysis, and the formulas given in the footnotes, give the book the appearance of being a cross between a Babson report and a geometry textbook. The continued use of this book will inevitably force many students to fall back on the tutoring schools for help. copies of McIssac and Smith should become frozen assets on the shelves of second hand book stores...