Word: reader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Semetic Seminary. Reader: Mr. M. L. Kellner. Subject: Sennacherib's Invasion of Judah. No. 7 Lowell...
APRIL 5. MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Reader: Mr. M. L. Kellner. Subject: Sennacherib's Invasion of Judah. No 7 Lowell...
...enterprising junior has recently calculated the amount of work which the reader of the junior forensics has to do. There are about 230 forensics handed in. The average number of words in each may be taken at 3500. Many men write 5000 or 6000, and none less than 3000 probably, so 3500 is a low average. The number of words, then, amount to about 805,000. The number of words on one page of the North American Review is about 400. Therefore the reader of the forensics reads an amount equivalent to 2000 pages, or 1 year and 8 months...
...generally advised, is simply to "browse" through the library. But this aimless wandering inculcates the habit of indiscriminate reading, a habit not to be classed with the custom of omnivorous reading, which is, perhaps, the only safe method to be pursued in a determined course of reading. An omnivorous reader is almost invariably a a thinker of acumen. There is something in being brought face to face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree. We hear again and again the cry that this is an over-read world, and that scholars are degenerating into...
...reader who has remembrances of Cambridge running back to 1836 - the year that Harvard celebrated her two hundredth anniversary - will recall with a smile the fanciful summer garment of the students then in vogue, called the College Toga. For at least two seasons it was in high fashion with the undergraduates. It was made of gingham, of a color and pattern to suit the taste of the wearer. It was a loose-fitting garment reaching to the knees, was gathered at the neck, and also at the waist, behind. It had a turned-over collar, a small cape rounded...