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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Shall we borrow or shall we buy books? In impressive fashion the British are this month raising the issue by a movement for the revival of reading on the purchase basis. They have found that in a population of 45,000,000 there are not more than a few hundred thousand people who actually buy the books they read, while of the remainder there is reason to believe that a considerable proportion do not habitually even borrow books for reading. And it is to move the public to a better showing that a "national book fortnight" is being observed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 1/25/1917 | See Source »

...youth struggled as a paint-boy in Tassi's studio, and won his first recognition from Cardinal Bentivoglio, who, in 1629, purchased two pictures from the young artist. When Pope Urban, who was shown them by the cardinal, expressed his exceptional pleasure, the landscapes of Claude became the fashion, and his fame steadily rose during the rest of his long life of 82 years. At his death he was a recognized classic, his reputation remaining steadily supreme in his field throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries. Later, even if somewhat neglected, it was to suffer little if any eclipse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANDSCAPE CANVASSES ON EXHIBITION IN FOGG | 1/23/1917 | See Source »

Harvard and Princeton clash tonight at the St. Nicholas Rink in New York City in the first game of the Crimson-Tiger series. The fact that the University seven defeated Dartmouth 3 to 0 in comparatively easy fashion a week after the latter had taken a game from the Tigers, 6 to 3, makes the Crimson a slight favorite, although Princeton's practice, culminating in a brilliant 4 to 3 victory over Yale last Wednesday at New Haven shows that the New Jersey team has developed very fast. Princeton has played six games so far, winning from St. Paul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN OPPOSES TIGERS | 1/20/1917 | See Source »

...increasing experience has strongly confirmed the desirability of the examination. It has also emphasized what was pointed out as one of the important results of the first examination, namely, that the physical examination enabled the examiner to convince a goodly number of students, who in some fashion or other conceived that they had organic defects, that in reality they were organically sound and normal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY PROTECTS HEALTH OF STUDENTS | 1/13/1917 | See Source »

...showed a slight slump in form and were swept off their feet by the visiting team in the last few minutes of play, the final score standing 3 to 2 in Pennsylvania's favor. This proved to be the last defeat, however, for the team came back in splendid fashion and defeated Yale and Dartmouth by the scores of 2 to 0 and 2 to 1, respectively. Both games were very fast and both were good exhibitions of unified playing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUCCESSFUL SOCCER SEASON | 12/20/1916 | See Source »

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