Word: readers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twelve; Indo-Iranian Languages, five; Greek, eighteen; Latin, nineteen; Greek and Latin, three; English, twelve; German, nine; French, eleven; Italian, four; Spanish, three; Philosophy, thirteen; Political Economy, ten; History, twenty; Roman Law, three; Fine Arts, nine; Music, five; Mathematics, twenty; Physics, ten; Chemistry, nine; and Natural History, nineteen. The reader is at liberty to compute the total...
Professor J. W. Churchill, the distinguished elocutionist and public reader will preach at the Prospect Street Congregational Church, Cambridgeport, tomorrow (Sunday), May 10, 1885. Services...
...dubbed "simple." But simplicity abdicates her sway when she approaches the study table, where confusion, I am told, too often reigns. The chairs, also, rebel against being confined to their primitive use, and offer their arms and backs to a heavy burden of Newmarkets, sacques and hats. The interested reader can obtain no adequate idea of the harmonious details I attempt to describe, until he realizes that this room has the ordinary proportions of a chamber. Order is, doubtless, a strong element in the character of the Annex students, but there are overruling circumstances...
...least as arrested motion can convey the idea of motion. There are fourteen of these illustrations, representing the horse running, trotting, cantering, jumping, etc. Col. Dodge has succeeded in giving much excellent advice on the management of a horse, while at the same time holding the reader's attention by the interest of the narrative. Tom, the companion of the author on many of his rambles, is a Harvard student who is just taking his first lessons in horsemanship, and it is through advice given him that much valuable knowledge is conveyed to the reader.- (Price, $3.00; Houghton, Mifflin...
...called to this bad bubit of game of the men among us again, and again, but apparently to was little purpose for the evil temporariy checked, soon increases to its old proportions. Cannot the thoughtless who are guilty of this annoyance keep in mind that their action disconcerts the reader or lecturer, and draws away the attention of the audience? A constant stream of men coming late often mars the first fifteen or twenty minutes of these public meetings in Sever 11, for the hard floors and wooden chairs of that lecture room do not permit the late comer...