Word: reader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will agree, in these foreign and exotic forms, and has from time to time published verses highly creditable, but we scarcely dare to whisper our opinion that it has gone beyond the bounds of moderation in restricting its effusions to these peculiar forms, which inevitably fall upon the reader, because only certain turns of idea and expression are possible in them, while the simpler old fashioned straight-away measures allow all themes and all licenses of thought and subject. The majority of appropriate college themes in French metres would find themselves ill at ease when so finely gotten...
Stuart Cumberland, the thought reader and exposer of spiritualism, now performing in Boston, advertises his exhibition as "under the moral support of the various professors of Harvard University...
...Professor, the Autocrat and the Poet have been interchangeable, and his latest published lecture to his classes is as notable for various and accurate and unusual learning as it is for crisp and charming literary skill. It is no less full of delight and instruction for the general reader than of historic value to the professional student. It is pleasant to know that Dr. Holmes resigns only that he may devote himself more exclusively to literary occupations. The professor who has taught the Medical School withdraws in favor of the professor who has charmed all the world. - [Harpers' Weekly...
...seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand five hundred. There are not only the Greek and Latin authors in this collection, but nearly every production of every commentator upon certain classical authors. Professor Gildersleeve has been an omniverous reader ever since he was a boy of twelve. He showed me some of his note-books that he had written out while at Princeton. Whenever he finished reading a book he wrote in his note-book his opinions of the work, and made comparisons between it and other works. His favorite...
Monroe's Sixth Reader is the text book used in Elocution by the seniors and juniors. The first part of the hour is devoted to exercises which give easy action to the muscles employed in speaking, and also to obtaining pure tones and improving the quality of the voice. The latter part of the hour is given to reading selections from Monroe's Sixth Reader...