Word: reade
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Copeland will read this afternoon from the works of Addison, Steele, Swift and Pope, at 4.45 o'clock, in Sever 11. This reading will supplement the lecture of last Wednesday on "Addison and Steele," and will be open to the public...
...choice of words which is to manifest in all of Stevenson's works, said: "The willingness to be satisfied with the wrong word, the wrong color, is the sign of an inferior author. A brilliant writer is the last one who can afford to be false or fatuous." He read several extracts from different works of Stevenson, including the dueling scene between the brothers in "The Master of Ballantrae," and characterized Stevenson as the writer of "the burning-glass style." He admitted that several of Stevenson's best scenes were from borrowed ideas, but said: "Originality does not lie with...
John Harvard Fellowships--H. L. Blackwell 4G., L. W. Flaccus 3G., C. Read 1G.; Whiting Fellowship--J. M. Adams 1G.; University Scholarships--H. Stiles 1G., R. D. MacLaurin 1G., A. S. Beatman 1G., J. B. Pratt 2G., C. C. Morris 2G.; Austin Scholarship--C. N. King 1G.; Shattuck Scholarship--W. O. Sypherd 2G.; Townsend Scholarship--R. A. Law 2G.; Gorham Thomas Scholarship--J. H. Hall 1G.; Bright Scholarship--J. C. Davenport 1G.; Thayer Scholarships--F. W. Brown 2G., W. C. Rice...
...Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock on "Robert Louis Stevenson." The address will take the form of a discussion of the value of Stevenson's contributions to nineteenth century prose, and will include an estimate of his character. A few selections from Stevenson's work will be read...
...quartet from the Florida Academy, Jacksonville, Florida, gave a pleasing concert in the Living Room of the Union last night. They sang a number of plantation melodies and religious songs, ending with a patriotic song written by a former instructor in the Academy. Mr. A. C. Crooms also read several poems by the negro poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar...