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...Square's educational bordelles had been experiencing difficulty, however. Their first major trouble came in 1933, when Macmillan, Houghton Miffin, Harper Brothers, and Ginn and Company brought suit against the College Tutoring Bureau charging that their abridging of text-books constituted a violation of copyright laws. A federal district court awarded the publishers damages and enjoined the College Tutors from continuing such practices...
Upon William's death in 1908, C. Chester Lane '04 took over, to eventually become the first director of the University Press. Formerly with the textbook publishing firm of Ginn and Co., Lane saw that the University was sending a considerable amount of material to outside publishing houses. The Economics and History Departments were regularly putting out their "Studies," and the "Oriental Series" was an established publication...
...left to four publishing firms to take the first step in crushing the schools. In 1933, Macmillan, Houghton Mifflin, Harper Brothers, and Ginn and Company sued the College Tutoring Bureau for abridging, printing, and selling copies of their textbooks. The Federal District Court awarded damages to the publishers, and issued a injunction restraining the Bureau from further use of these outlines...
...Belgian, who is sponsored by The Belgian-American Foundation, is writing a Ph.D. thesis on treaties in the United Nations. He finds an up up-to-date collection of U.N. documents in the Edwin Ginn Library, situated in the basement of Gordon Hall. The collection of 50,000 volumes and pamphlets, including League of Nations publications and Pan-American Union information, was obtained from the World Peace Foundation...
...Chester Lane '04 came from Ginn and Company to guide the Press as its first director. He got the University Press going and then left to serve in the Army in 1919. His present post is business manager of the New York Times...