Word: reade
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum Professor Lyon read some most interesting letters translated from the Assyrian. They were written by the Kings of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and other countries, and date at least from 1500 B. C., While others are of even more ancient times. Egyptian scholars recognize some of these tablets as despatches written by the Pharoahs. They cast a remarkable light on both the social and political conditions of the great nations which existed long before Moses was born...
...Horace Howard Furness will read Shakespeare's King Henry V, in Sanders Theatre on Friday, March 6, at 8 p. m. Admission will be by ticket only. The reading will be open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College. Tickets may be had on application, on and after March 2, at 5 Divinity Hall or at Fay House...
Class 8-E. A. Crowninshield, J. A. Ryerson, S. W. B. Moorehead, C. Tete, Jr., J. C. Davidson, A. Codman, Jr., Scott Griffin, J. B. Read, S. G. Thompson. B. F. Davis, T. S. Beckwith, G. C. Hinckley, W. M. Scudder, one-half...
...annual election of officers of the Cercle Francais, held last evening, resulted as follows: President, H. Schurz '97; vice-president, J. P. Hayden '97; secretary, W. H. Cram '97; treasurer, S. L. Pitts '97; Faculty member of executive committee, Professor de Sumichrast. Mr. C. H. Conrad Wright read a very interesting paper on "French School Life and English University Life...
...critic, he was insensible to Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth...