Word: texts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...text-book loan library, which was suggested last year, will be opened in Phillips Brooks House this morning with the books collected by the Social Service Committee at the close of the last College year. About 300 text-books, covering most of the courses in College, were given by men in the University last spring; and these books have been arranged by subjects and will form the foundation of the loan library...
...library is designed for the use of students in the University, who are not able to buy all the text-books needed in their courses. The books will be loaned for the time of a course on the payment of a small deposit which will be refunded on their return...
Members of the University who have text or reference books, which they are willing to give to the loan library, are requested to leave them at Phillips Brooks House, or to send word by postal to R. B. Gregg '07, chairman of the Social Service Committee, Hollis 19. Books are still needed to supply deficiencies in several subjects and to provide duplicates for large courses as soon as possible...
Professor Langdell was famous as the originator of the "case-system" of teaching law, which has now supplanted the older text-book method in nearly all the large law schools in the country. The accomplishment of this work makes him one of the foremost of the men to whom the great advance and progress of the University during the last thirty-five years...
...Social Service Committee will make this week a special collection of text-books for the new loan library to be started in Phillips Brooks House. The dormitories will not be canvassed, but one man in each will receive all articles left at his room today and tomorrow. The wagon will call at all buildings Thursday morning. Names of dormitory collectors will be posted in each entry today...