Word: books
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncommon to apply at the delivery desk for a dozen books and find ten of them reported missing or otherwise withdrawn. Undergraduates have been known not to return books at all, and, refusing to replace the book, have enjoyed their library privilege unimpaired. The answer, "I don't understand why the book is missing from the stacks; I put it on the delivery desk a week ago," has cleared more than one guilty undergraduate, and freed him from further embarrassment...
...NATURAL MOTHER-Dominique Dunois-Macaulay ($2.50). This book was awarded the 1929 Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse, a cash prize of 5,000 francs offered annually by the two French magazines of that name. That it won the prize merely indicates that the French are not always so gay. Neither a cheerful nor an aphrodisiac story, its flaming jacket suggests that at least it has its lickerish moments. Not so. A stout French peasant lass, Georgette Garou, knows what she wants and goes after it with few words and indomitable dignity. She wants to keep her farm, to get a husband...
...work of this year's Red Book board will be simplified to a great extent by the completion of all Freshman photographs, a service which has been arranged by D. S. Byers '25, Dean of Records. All Freshmen have had photographs made by official orders, and in addition to providing a print for the College records, the photographers will be able to supply the Red Book with...
...editor of the 1933 Red Book and his associates will be selected next week, it was announced yesterday by S. L. Batchelder '31, chairman of the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs, who heads the temporary executive council of the Class of 1933, which is composed of the chairmen and treasurers of each Freshman Hall dormitory committee...
...election of the editor and sub-chairmen of the Freshman year book will be conducted this year as it was last term, when a new system of selecting these officials was inaugurated. Prior to 1928 the editor was appointed by the class president after the mid-year elections, but it was found that this plan prevented the board from doing its best work on the volume. As a result the present plan was inaugurated, which permits the selection of the board before the Christmas holidays...