Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Handbook, the information Bureau, the Monday night meetings, and the social service work. Receptions to new students this year, at which the work of Brooks House was explained, were attended by over 1000 men. The student working his way has been helped by the distribution of clothes and the Text Book Loan Library. Already this year over 900 college books and 200 law books have been lent...
...what "sand" will do in the way of escaping from an unfortunate predicament. To many who repeat the story, however, it illustrates that "ideal imperturbability" which is the core of "Harvard indifference"; the fickle public has a habit of appropriating a good story for its own use. Whatever text the episode represents, the fact is bat it has an unusually universal appeal...
...this University experiments are continually being made, the most recent of which Professor Day termed an "Undergraduate Research Course". The student in such a course no longer works out set problems from a text book. He is obliged to select from his field of concentration, whatever it may be, problems or subjects to which he must apply in his own way the methods taught in the course. This plan is being adopted with success in a number of the college courses this year...
...weeks a heated controversy has been going on in the "Letters to the Editor" column of the New York Times, concerning the truthful teaching of History--particularly that of the American Revolution. Charles Cran Miller, of fame unknown to "Who's Who", began the skirmish by attacking elementary text-books on the ground that they destroy patriotism. These books present the American position as partly right and partly wrong. According to Mr. Miller, we ought to regard the American leaders as saints and the English ministry and king as demons. The next week the author of one of the text...
This year nearly 3000 text books are available, many of which are used in the larger elementary courses. It has been found necessary to limit the number of books which law student may take out to three...