Show The University Book Commission TO partly obviate the great difficulty that has always existed in the past with respect to procuring text and reference books for students it has been decided to establish under Library z management a University book com com- mission The object of the commission will be for the to simply act as agent students and professors in securing needed school supplies and inasmuch as the buying will be done directly with publishing houses it is hoped to not only do away with the unnecessary delay in getting supplies but to get them at greatly reduced prices The commission is not organized for money making on the other hand it is intended to give students the full benefit benefit benefit bene bene- fit of publishers' publishers prices only enough extra being charged to make the commission commission commission com com- mission self It i is also intended intended intended in in- tended to make the commission a medium of exchange students being allowed not only to exchange old books for new ones but to sell to the commission commission commission com com- mission if they feel forced to do so when they leave school all their old books The is organized with no f hostility to Salt Lake book stores but inasmuch as the local dealers are only agents not affording to carry even a limited stock of the books used here and being extremely wary of ordering even a single volume that is not virtually virtually virtually vir vir- sold it has been thought expedient expedient expedient ex ex- to establish the agency here Past experience has shown that individual individual individual dual professors can get books for their classes in less time with fewer difficulties difficulties difficulties ties and much more cheaply than the j 1 x iI 1 0 local dealers It is quite certain then that the new commission by virtue of a aits its connection with a leading institution r of learning will command respect and b favor that even our up town book bookstores bookstores bookstores stores do not 1 |