Word: reader
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...better, and not much worse, than the run of college football tales. Mr. Moore's "A Pack of Cards" lumbers heavily over a comedy situation, with inadequate characterization and conventional dialogue. "Me and Her" goes to the other extreme, being rather cleverly written about little or nothing. The reader, however, becomes weary of the coquettish parentheses addressed to him. "The Spectators" is weak description wherein exaggeration does duty as humor...
...wish to express our appreciation of the delightful reading which Professor Trueblood gave on Wednesday evening. It was an example of highly perfected speech, and showed the power that such utterance, even in its simplest form, has over an audience. The refined art and the pleasing personality of the reader added attractiveness to a piece of good literature. We hope that other such occasions may be offered...
Emmanuel College--William Napier Shaw, Sc.D., LL.D., Hon. Sc.D., h.'09, Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College; Director of the London Meteorological Office; Reader in Meterorology in the University of London...
University of Cambridge--William Napier Shaw, Sc.D., LL.D., Hon. Sc.D., h.'09, Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College; Director of the London Meteorological office; Reader in Meteorology in the University of London. John Christopher Willis, A.M., ScD., h.'09, Fellow of Gonville and Calus College; Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon...
...could well try rewriting The Coward many times; at the end it should be very effective. Corners in York, by Mr. Huckel, describes a ramble in the old English city under the guidance of an eccentric local character. It is well told. It takes some lines, however, for the reader to decide which York is meant, the only New York, the English city, or the old English settlement in Maine. Mr. Schenck contributes a story, Fate and the Traitress, novel in situation. The reader is quite taken by surprise twice during the tale. A very good novel might well...