Word: reade
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...murmured, "Boy, I read by sound...
...clear from one point of view. A college paper ought to present to the world a specimen of the best intellectual productions of the undergraduates. But the best men in college will not write; and if they did, we are confident such long literary articles would not be read by the majority of the students. And a college paper has necessarily such a limited circulation that, to exist, it must be universally supported...
...work all done and only waiting for his dismissal. That most beautiful passage at the end of the Newcomes has been so often quoted that I will not give it here, but only repeat one word, which must bring back that closing scene to any one who has ever read it - a word the old arches have so often echoed to generation after generation of school-boys in the old cloisters, - "Adsum...
HAVE you ever read essays of Elia, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, or Vanity Fair? Then I am sure of your interest in a few words about those two old schools, Christ Hospital and Gray Friars, from whose walls have gone out, not only Charles Lamb, Coleridge, and Thackeray, but many more of England's noblest writers and workers...
...Gray Friars, however, was not a king, but a very ordinary person, though wise beyond most men in the disposal of his fortune, - one Thomas Sutton, whose death, December 14, 1611, is yearly commemorated on Founder's Day by the whole school, as all will remember who have read the Newcomes, though in that beautiful description Thackeray has not given the quaint verse regularly sung on that occasion, which runs...