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into prominence and favor many of the classics. Hence a desire for reading is increased.
More books were borrowed for study last year in New Jersey, according to the report, than ever before, the number lent showing an increase of 34.000 over that of the preceding year. And the demand was for a higher standard of book than formerly, too, and the greatest demand was for historical novels. " Many of the old standard works have been brought back into favor and prominence ", the report read.
Books on the shelves of libraries make it possible for men to attain a certain amount of knowledge and information by hard work and application. But the moving picture presented as an amusement will in a few years make it impossible for any average man or woman to remain ignorant.
In recent months, there has been a decided tendency on the part of educational institutions to " take up the movies ". Columbia University, Harvard, several of the Western universities and many high schools have developed plans whereby instruction in motion picture technology, motion picture business methods, and motion picture appreciation, has become a regular feature of the curriculums.
Harvard has already established motion pictures as a part of the curriculum, in the Graduate School of Business Administration. A series of lectures on the various departments of the industry have been delivered by representative men of the industry. Three reasons assigned by the Harvard Business School for such a course are that there is a growing need and opportunity for trained business men in the motion picture industry ; that the influence of films in this country and elsewhere is too great to be overlooked ; and that the motion picture industry serves as an illustration of an industry which has grown so rapidly that all stages of its commercial development may be clearly traced.
Going still farther, and in an even more important direction, Harvard University has established a library and archive of films in the Department of Fine Arts. Reading from the announcement made by the Harvard authorities :
" In the belief that the achievements in motion pictures deserve recognition as part of the cultural development of the country and must be considered in any serious historical and technical study of the art, the Department of Fine Arts of Plarvard University, in association with the Fogg Museum and the University Library, plans to establish immediately a library and archive of films.
" With the cooperation of Will H. Hays, President or the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., and of the producers themselves this collection will be formed to serve the double purpose of recording the evolution of the moving picture from its beginning to the
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