Word: reade
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Junior class held a meeting on Tuesday last to take action on the death of their classmate, Francis Edward Sedgwick. The following resolutions were read and adopted...
...Books we read, great deeds recounting...
...everybody on the way, that it would be well to take a few lessons either in dancing or etiquette." We thought at first that this little peculiarity must have proved quite unpleasant for all who chanced to be on the floor at the time it was indulged in. On reading further, we discovered our mistake, for "the only really unpleasant feature of the evening was that little scene around the lunch counter during the intermission. Some of those who came without ladies acted as if they were at a Delta. Kappa. peanut bum, and in spite of the entreaties...
Thus, in looking over back numbers of the College papers, we find innumerable articles on the state of the Gymnasium, on the condition of the food at Memorial Hall, etc., which complaints are perfectly just, and so are generally published and read, although they become rather monotonous by repetition. Against these we have nothing to say, as it is only by reiterated complaints in the papers that the desires of the students are noticed by the Faculty or Corporation...
This volume on "Social Science," as it stands alone, is itself a monument to the honor and fame of two humorists, the author and the editor. For, certainly, no one can have read the editor's preface without the keenest appreciation of Kate McKean's trenchant wit and delicate sense of humor. Employing that same careless freedom with matters of history which Mr. Carey only anticipated her in doing, she shows a novel, if not refreshing, independence of educated opinion, and even of the ordinary processes of reason, in her estimate of the few great men who were so unfortunate...