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Hitting the books takes its toll as students suffer eye strain (top left) and work hard at staying alert (top)
Hitting the books takes its toll as students suffer eye strain (top left) and work hard at staying alert (top)

Hitting the books takes its toll as students suffer eye strain (top left) and work hard at staying alert (top)

Date4/3/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Hitting the books takes its toll as students suffer eye strain (top left) and work hard at staying alert (top)
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0113982F
Yea. To Principal John Plumpton of Jane Junior High School in North York for trying to get more students to read books. Twice a week staff and students are given 50 minutes of the day just to read - anything they like. Some of them may discover that reading is a joy, even though it's a little more work than watching a TV scree. It's a nice idea.
Yea. To Principal John Plumpton of Jane Junior High School in North York for trying to get more students to read books. Twice a week staff and students are given 50 minutes of the day just to read - anything they like. Some of them may discover that reading is a joy, even though it's a little more work than watching a TV scree. It's a nice idea.
11/11/1977
Supplement to the catalogue of books, in the library of the Legislative Assembly of Canada : (Containing the books added in the year 1846)
Supplement to the catalogue of books, in the library of the Legislative Assembly of Canada : (Containing the books added in the year 1846)
1847
Children line up at a desk in a library to check out books.
Marking out books in front hall, Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Library
approximately 1940
Picture of children lined up at a desk checking out books with the librarian. 
Checking out books at Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Library
Approximately 1955
Heat takes its toll of hungry, sweltering prisoners in the sun-scorched yard of the Ontario reformatory at Guelph as five men can be seen collapsed on the ground in circles at right
Heat takes its toll of hungry, sweltering prisoners in the sun-scorched yard of the Ontario reformatory at Guelph as five men can be seen collapsed on the ground in circles at right
7/8/1952
Drive to succeed takes its toll on 'wheelie', Gino Vendetti goes through the laps at Birchmount Stadium in preparation for this week's Ontario Games f(...)
Drive to succeed takes its toll on 'wheelie', Gino Vendetti goes through the laps at Birchmount Stadium in preparation for this week's Ontario Games f(...)
7/8/1987
Bookmark advertising radio shows.
Books and Us, a series of talks about books by C.R. Sanderson Chief Librarian of the Toronto Public Libraries
1944
Catalogue of English and French books in the Montreal Library
Catalogue of English and French books in the Montreal Library
1797
Staying on track: York University's David Reid, 20, one of Canada's top young runners, is training long and hard for the indoor track and field season
Staying on track: York University's David Reid, 20, one of Canada's top young runners, is training long and hard for the indoor track and field season
9/28/1983
Staying on track: York University's David Reid, 20, one of Canada's top young runners, is training long and hard for the indoor track and field season
Staying on track: York University's David Reid, 20, one of Canada's top young runners, is training long and hard for the indoor track and field season
9/28/1983
It's tough getting to the top in big-time TV news, but it can be even tougher staying there
It's tough getting to the top in big-time TV news, but it can be even tougher staying there
5/4/1983
A book by its cover: Jacques Byfield's novel Forever 33 didn't win the Newmarket man the $50,000 top prize in Seal Book's first novel contest
A book by its cover: Jacques Byfield's novel Forever 33 didn't win the Newmarket man the $50,000 top prize in Seal Book's first novel contest
5/21/1982