Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interior. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University, sent in a thick, beautifully written report which read like a modern college textbook. Sample: "Continental conservation is the key to the future of this Nation. . . . Conservation is a term, around which much confusion has reigned. Conservation means wise use. Wise use means that a natural asset shall be used for the proper purpose and at the right time...
...certain type mind which is not so constituted as to profit largely by these values. But I am speaking here of the student of average ability in this department. Such an individual can hardly develop oral command of a foreign tongue, aside from the stereotyped phrases of classroom and textbook, in the time that is reasonably available for the study and practice of language in the secondary curriculum. (It is another matter with the student who is exceptionally gifted linguistically or who is in contact with the language outside of the classroom.) Now if there were no educative value...
...would have a library composed only of novels? A choice as limited as that would indicate an uninteresting owner; even a calculus textbook on your bookshelves would catch the eye and hint of a many-sided character...
...margins and covers of these books." To what other books have you granted such intimacy of thought" Provost Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania follows this thought with his remark. "I know of no book that can be more properly valued as an 'association book' than the textbook which represents many hours of work and brings to mind some teacher of the past." The Bates Student
...traitorous textbook" into which aspersions against wine have "crept " according to Deputy Barthe, is The Natural Sciences, a work containing the statement: "Cognac in one-centigram doses can kill a large...