Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the general low level of college salaries, some special grants naturally have to be made for advanced studies. Professors can often make fairly heavy profits from textbook writing, but that task is a barren one so far as either intellectual stimulus or increased knowledge are concerned. Because they allow members of the Faculty to devote themselves to work which gives them some inspiration and which results in some contribution to learning, the Milton and Clark Funds are invaluable to the University...
...issue of your magazine is an interesting inquiry: "Did this country ever apologize to any nation before in the course of its history?" There have been numerous occasions when our government has been magnanimous enough to express regret over international unpleasantness. Reference to any secondary school textbook would provide many such instances but I would like to mention that Daniel Webster apologized to Spain for the defacing of a portrait of Queen Isabella in New Orleans and that Seward, upon the advice of Lincoln and Sumner, made a similar gracious gesture to England in the "Trent Affair." Possibly these...
...University in 1895 with an A. B. in Engineering. For 18 years he was engaged in applying the latest U. S. engineering methods in mines, railroads, work which carried him into almost a dozen countries. He has written Economics in Mining (1906), Principles of Mining (1909), used as a textbook in technical schools. He has lectured on engineering at Stanford and Columbia Universities. With his wife, in 1912 he translated from Latin the first book ever written (published 1556) on mining, de Re Metallica, for which he was given a medal by U. S. mining engineers...
...authors were the 54 foremost cancer combatants, the world's leading specialists in cancer pathology, biology, surgery, X-ray therapy, radium therapy. They wrote in tribute to a great teacher, Professor James Ewing of Cornell Medical School, Manhattan, the man who spent ten years writing Neoplastic Diseases, prime textbook on Cancer. What the 54 authorities wrote comprises a compendium of all current knowledge of Cancer, its causes, treatment, prevention. Because Professor Ewing has always taught that the specialists must depend on the family doctor to discover early signs of cancer, this issue of the Annals of Surgery will...
Each year for several years the Philips Brooks House Association has conducted two drives for discarded clothing, magazines, and books. The best of the clothing received is sent to settlement houses and other welfare organizations. Any textbooks received are placed in the textbook loan library maintained by the Association. Other books and magazines collected are sent to the Merchant Marine...