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    • 01. Machine as note-taker
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    • 31. The Education of Shunsuke Tsurumi
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    • 48. The cost of a Harvard education
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    • 50. Jamaican flowers
    • 51. Using math to learn science
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    • 55. Work and practice
    • 56. Using scrap paper
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    • 61. The future of Harvard in 1700
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    • 71. At the first view of dissections
    • 72. Slavish imitation
    • 73. The ultimate piece of office furniture
    • 74. A solution to the cost of textbooks
    • 75. A philosopher's day job
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Cost of textbooks

Charles Morton
Charles Frost
Harvard University, 1729
Gift of Samuel Eliot Morison, 1955.

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Houghton Library. MS AM 1353. HOLLIS Catalog: 010114479

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  • Notes in the Classroom
  • Charles Frost
  • Charles Morton
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  • Houghton Library
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