Word: reade
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Professor Carson has accepted an invitation to read a paper on Shakspere's Versification before the "New Shakspere Society" of London, on the second Friday in June...
...room looked well, at any rate. At the same time expensive bindings are not the thing. They are well enough on drawing-room tables, but, far from helping you to enjoy a book, they make you afraid to treat it familiarly. And books which look as if you never read them are almost as bad as no books at all. It is a good plan, by the way, to keep one or two volumes on various subjects lying carelessly on your table. As for the choice of books I need not say much. You are not fool enough to throw...
...account of Boston ends with some reflections on fashionable education; children, he deplores, are taught that "what they are is of little consequence, but what they appear to-be is of importance inestimable." Young men read novels, and the "sight of a classic author gives them a chill, a lesson in Locke or Euclid a mental ague." Young ladies "sink down to songs, novels, and plays." The reverend President is particularly severe towards the young ladies, and solemnly warns them that "between the Bible and novels there is a gulf fixed which few novel-readers are willing to pass...
...Galaxy for November is an excellent number of the magazine. It contains a continuation of "Madcap Violet," Essays by Richard White Grant, T. M. Coan, Albert Rhodes, and others. The story of "Miss Ruth" is almost, without exception, the best of its kind that we have read for years...
...province. We have great respect for the Freshman class, and we wish them well in every particular. No satirical advice to them will appear in our columns; but the letters which have been furnished us by one of our most valued contributors - a man of large experience - can be read with interest by every one, and, if taken in the right way, with great advantage, we sincerely believe, by those whose residence in Cambridge is just beginning...