Word: reade
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Glee Club are to be hereafter excused from Rhetoricals. "The entire Musical Association is to be divided into three classes, members of the Glee Club constituting the first class, all those who can read music readily, including the members of the elementary class of last year, compose the second class, and the remainder the third class. The best singers in the second class will be advanced into the Glee Club whenever vacancies occur, and the third class will be merged into the second as rapidly as possible...
...next Monday evening Dr. William Everett will read the Fourth Book of the aeneid, at Harvard Hall, beginning at half past seven...
...School of Mines Department" of the Columbia Spectator, we read of a gentleman who "was recently the recipient of a dinner tendered to him" by some society or other. The two words which we have italicized prove sufficiently that the author of the item deserves, at least, to graduate with high honors in newspaper English. There is necessarily a modicum of bad matter in college journals, but bad manner is inexcusable...
...suppose it is one of those funny alphas privative that don't mean anything sometimes, is n't it? You see," complainingly, "when I'd finished Homer, I could n't read any more Greek on account of my eyes, so I don't know as much as I ought...
...carried on in the Transcript. There is no doubt that the men who made these attacks honestly believed what they said, and that they spoke with more or less (we think with less) knowledge of facts. The same was the case with the Independent, which felt called upon to read us a lecture on behavior, but which admitted that the evil practices deplored were confined to a comparative few, and that the majority of Harvard students were gentlemen in the best sense of that word. These attacks were well answered in several Boston papers, the Post especially showing...