The Guardian has posted some entertaining and informative pictures of life as a graduate student. Some of these do not paint a very flattering picture of graduate school life. The picture on the left is described as “17th-century economic history documents at the National Archives.” Yikes!
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I own this one. [In much worse shape.]
http://www.oldworldauctions.com/archives/detail/141-782.htm
My friends spend hours with it.
Mebbe funky old docs have some pedagogical power. The sense of discovering things for yourself, tapping the vein, not just what your prof and the textbook feed you.