Word: texts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...results of the recent clothing collection made by the Phillips Brooks House Association have just been tabulated. The figures show a great variety of useful articles of clothing, and also many text-books and magazines...
...list is as follows: Overcoats, 13; coats, 55; trousers, 61; vests, 50; shoes (pairs), 94; socks (pairs), 33; shirts, 75; collars, 151; neckties, 137; underclothes (suits), 15; pajamas (suits), 7; bath robes, 1; raincoats, 1; sweaters, 1; gloves (pairs), 5; hats, 17; caps, 15; text-books, 101; magazines...
...text-books will be added to the loan library in Phillips Brooks House and the magazines will be distributed among various charitable institutions. Several appeals for clothing have been received from institutions in the south -- notably Tuskegee Institute at Tuskegee, Ala., and the Brewer Normal Institute at Greenwood...
...lecture hour. It is then that a large group of men, presumably interested in one subject, are brought together in a gathering which offers great intellectual possibilities. Under the lecture system which dominates American colleges, however, this hour usually resolves itself into a more or less dry text-book chapter. In many cases the lecturer merely enlarges upon the reading assigned; and in others the matter which he delivers could be incorporated into a text-book with a positive gain to clearness and cogency...
Part of the clothing collected will be distributed in Europe among the sufferers from the war, while the rest will be given to various charitable institutions in the vicinity. The magazines will be given to hospitals and to reading rooms of houses of charity. Text books used in the larger courses are especially valuable, as there is great need for them in the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library...