Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply to Johanna M. Lessinger's letter to the editors of the CRIMSON concerning the Coop's textbook pricing (Oct. 9), I have checked the incident mentioned in the letter and find that our textbook department was entirely at fault...
...Society's textbook buyer, a most competent young man, admits that he came in on the tail end of Mrs. Lessinger's conversation with the clerk at the counter and is very red-faced over the incident. After going back to his desk he refigured the price of the book in question and found he had made a mathematical error and multiplied by 80 per cent rather than 70 per cent. He admits he should have checked his figures while she was still in the store. Shortly after she left the book in question was remarked at its properly scheduled...
...education no longer suffices for today. The rate of technological change and the development of new information is so great that educators scarcely know what to make of it all, let alone how to get it taught; next week's scientific discovery can make last week's textbook obsolete. Even future vocational demands are unpredictable; not long after Los Angeles vocational schools developed a program to train keypunch operators, new machines came along to make the keypunch-and the operators-superfluous...
Today I went into the Coop Textbook Annex to buy a used sociology book. They had a shelf full of used books, all stamped $6.80, although most of the books still had their former prices stamped in the front too. The original selling prices ranged from $4.95 to $6.65. When we asked the book buyer why the book was selling, used, for a higher price than it had originally cost its first owner, he at first denied any knowledge of what the other numbers meant. He finally begain to claim that the book might have sold for less...
Died. Arthur Holmes, 75, foremost British geologist, author of the classic textbook, Principles of Physical Geology, whose pioneering use of radioactivity as early as 1913 in determining the age of rocks paved the way for the geological time scale, which places the origins of the earth at 4.5 billion years; of uremic poisoning; in London...