Word: reade
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the French Club, next Monday, Moliere's "Misanthrope" will be read. Members are requested to bring their own books. Il y aura du ponsch...
...become acquainted with an author's style, and derive benefit and pleasure from his works, it is not necessary to read everything he has written. Yet what we do read, we should read with moderate care at least; since a novel from which we can learn nothing as to excellence of style, delineation of character, or relation of events, - and none of these benefits can be gained from superficial reading, - ought not to take the time of any one, unless he reads wholly for pleasure. We usually do better, therefore, to skip volumes rather than pages. Because we cannot...
...diminished to a fortnight, a week, and finally half a week. The more I cut off the down the faster and thicker it grew; and as I am averse to all duties that have to be performed regularly, I soon conceived a great prejudice against my mustache, and read all the medical books I could get hold of, to see if there was no antidote against it. I did not want to let it grow, because its color is a sort of magenta, and I had not then made up my mind to go to Harvard...
...Most of our readers in Cambridge have already heard of the great increase in our facilities for learning which the kindness of our instructors proposes to offer next year. It is intended that, on two or three evenings of the week, the instructors in the various languages shall hold readings, like those we have at present by Professor Child and Professor Palmer, so arranged that in the course of four years every undergraduate may, without undertaking any extra work, be able to become acquainted with the writings of the best authors in each language. The Greek and Shakspere readings, which...
...D.ERRATUM. - In the "American Notes," last week, under the heading "Harvard College," for "letting the Memorial Hall for a common stable" read "common's table," - a very material difference. - London Inquirer...