Text and reference books required for use in undergraduate courses during the second half year may be obtained from the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library upon payment of a ten cent rental fee.

Harvard removes human skin used as binding for 1880s book, apologizes The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton Library and has been part of the ...

Progress of Text-Book Loan Library NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED A new book-case, capable of holding about 1500 books, has been recently set up in one of the office rooms on the ground floor of Phillips ...

For 90 years, a book about the soul after death was bound in human skin. Now, Harvard has removed the binding and apologized for its handling of the book.

The book arrived at Harvard in 1934, via the American diplomat John B. Stetson, an heir to the hat fortune. It had been bound by its first owner, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, a French doctor, who inserted ...