Word: text
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...life that matters--but the courage you bring into it," might we have been the text of St. John O. Ervine's great play, "John Ferguson, which began its first week in Boston a the Hollis Monday evening. It is a word of unusual power destined to live because it deals with emotions, instinct and characters which will exist as lone as life itself exists...
Thus far this year the library has loaned 450 text-books for undergraduate courses and 76 law books; 132 men have availed themselves of this privilege by taking out these books. E. L. Pierson '21, in charge of the library, has computed that these loans represent an average saving of $4.75 for those who have made use of the opportunity...
Among the many aids which the Phillips Brooks House offers is a comparatively little known one, the Text Book Loan Library. This library annually lends books to students for a very slight sum, where otherwise it would mean a considerable financial strain on them...
...Text Book Loan Library was started in 1906, primarily to reduce the expenses of students working their way through college. There are at present 3500 books on the shelves, of which 2000 are French and German readers and grammars. The average number of books withdrawn yearly reaches 700. The number of volumes is being increased every year by regular collections and by the gifts of numerous friends. The depository fee is ten or fifteen cents, depending on the book to be loaned; all but five cents is given back when the book is returned by the borrower...
...library has need of many more books on all courses given at the University, but especially for courses in History, Government, Economics and Philosophy. Men who have text-books which are of no further use to them are requested to contribute them to the library; if postal is sent to Phillips Brooks House the books will be called...