Word: reader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...improvements made by Prof. Trowbridge make the Harvard apparatus superior to either of these. As a specimen of the value of these electormetrical records to the ordinary reader, it is stated by Professor Trowbridge's assistant that a change in the direction of the wind is often indicated several hours, frequently four or five in advance, by a change in the electric potential of the air. Rainy weather and coming storms are also foretold by the changes, but the observations are not yet full enough to lead to any decided statements. Observations are also being made with a view...
Futher it is added "that no student shall take his seat or place by running hither and thither or by walking about, but that all shall compose themselves in modesty and silence to listen to the reader...
Professor Roebrig of Cornell, has adopted the recent Sanscrit Reader by Professor Lanman, as the text book for his Sanscrit class...
...these societies is the playing of the game of cricket-match, an active, running, driving, jumping game, which only can be played by a person having a good pair of legs and in a climate where warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up the animal heat. Does the reader know how to play a game at cricket-match? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The player, close to one of the posts, throws a large ball towards the other party, who awaits the ball to send it far with a small stick with which...
...little instruction or criticism from his professors that was of value to him. His favorite study was Greek, and his translations of the classical authors were neat and happy. In mathematics he made no headway, and he did not succeed very well in philosophy. He was a great reader, and studied very much outside of the prescribed course. Even on entering college he was well read. His special favorites were the old English poets and dramatists,-Montaigne and Shakspere. He was especially devoted to Shakspere, and became very familiar with that poet's works. In his sophomore year...