Word: reade
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficulty has been found in giving a satisfactory answer. I should like, however, through your columns, to outline a work in which any member of the club, or any person who is not a member, can assist the work of Civil Service Reform. Many of the books which are read in various lines of work, notably in the courses in History, contain valuable references to the conduct of the Civil Service in this and other countries. Now, there is at the present time a pressing need and call for a complete bibliography of Civil Service literature, and if the scattered...
...meeting of the class of ninety-seven held last evening in Lower Mass., letters expressing sympathy from the class to Mr. Staples and Mr. Cunningham were read and accepted. The following officers were re-elected: President, R. H. Stevenson; vice-president, John Dunlop; secretary, James Dean...
...Copeland spoke first of the difference between this age and the last in the art of reading and speaking. It was not until very recently, he said, that there was the slightest desire shown by the students to learn to read and to speak well. He accounted for this in part by the fact that men had so much less time to devote to reading now than in the past century, and in order to keep up with the times they let the grand old writers go, to spend their time in reading magazines and new novels. He spoke further...
...club on November 9, in Sanders Theatre. The club will make this an opening public meeting. The first balcony only will be reserved for the members of the club and of the Faculty. Two or three other free public meetings will be held during the year. A letter was read from the national association asking for delegates to the civil service convention in Chicago, December...
...University as have already been in Cambridge a year the announcement in the Calendar of Mr. Copeland's lecture needs no commentary. But to the new-comers we wish to speak a word concerning these meetings. Aside from the pleasure to be derived from hearing interesting prose and verse read well, the subject of this first talk is really one quite worth attention. If a man makes no effort to acquire the ability to read and to speak well before he leaves college, the chances are that he never will. The fact that Mr. Copeland and Mr. Hayes are prepared...