Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have met to work out a revision of "Five Kinds of Writing," the well-worn standard text for the course. As far as fixing up English. A goes, they probably will have been wasting their time. For it will take more than the simple remake of a now-aging textbook to patch up the defects of the College's largest course, already far too unwieldly to teach anything past a few required fundamentals...
...classes in the town's normal school, which had been used as barracks and hospital by successive waves of French, German and British troops. Students made benches and desks out of crates and rubble, plugged up windows with rags. For the rest of the war, with hardly a textbook, little paper, and no typewriters, professors lectured and gave examinations just as before. "We felt that if we could hold out for two or three years," explained one professor, "the university would be saved...
...defeat after defeat piled up (at the hands of Washington University, Marietta, Franklin & Marshall, Case), Wild Bill's squad lost weight. From despair? No, from studying. Says Wild Bill: "When they get a rubdown from the trainer, they are propped up on both elbows reading a textbook. On trips, they study both ways on the train or bus. I'm surprised they don't carry their books to the bench and study when they're not in the game. Probably haven't thought...
...every week here at TIME. Requests for reprint rights (TIME'S editorial material is copyrighted and can be reproduced only by permission) run into the hundreds and range from a desire to use a certain TIME story or stories as examples of good English prose in a forthcoming textbook on English composition (there are four such about to be published) to a college publication that is about to use our format in a forthcoming parody of TIME...
Although there are many exceptions, permission to reprint TIME editorial copy is frequently given to newspapers, trade papers and textbook publishers, to unsponsored radio programs, non-profit charitable organizations, to digest magazines, publishers of books and anthologies, etc. In a recent month reprint permission was granted to such varied organizations and individuals as a physician who wanted to quote from three TIME Medicine stories in a college textbook he was revising; to a newspaper chain, which wanted to run Billion-Dollar Hangover (TIME, April 5) on its editorial pages; to a University of Kansas sociology professor who wanted...