Word: readers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reader is at first attracted by the musical metre; but on closer examination the whole thing is seen to be affectation. No one ever yet saw a dead moon, or heard the midnight whir. The epithet windy is beautifully inappropriate for stars...
...announcement appears in the Calendar for next week that Mr. Copeland will give three new voluntary courses in reading and speaking. The value of the courses given by Mr. Copeland cannot well be over-estimated. An excellent reader himself, he has the faculty of knowing how to instruct others, and under his tuition very poor readers make rapid improvement. His curse in debating which was started last year has met with success and has proved a good training school for men who wish to enter one of the debating clubs. It is also of considerable value...
...characteristic features of President Eliot's report compel the attention of the reader: First, his careful study of a general educational problem-the proper adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools; and secondly, his suggestion of many very interesting questions which come up in the administration of the University itself. One of the most interesting things which he discusses is the group of courses most largely taken by students in the College under the existing elective system. The President does not tell us just where he draws the line between the larger and smaller classes, but he gives...
...Harvard system. He shows clearly that the committee has been the direct cause, against much opposition, of raising the amateur standing and of eliminating professionalism. He recognizes that through the committee the marked abuses, which he attacked so severely in his last report, have been largely remedied. The reader infers that though President Eliot probably retains his personal dislike for football he is not disappointed in the use which the Athletic Committee has made of the trust which the Corporation and Overseers voted to continue to them...
McClure's Magazine for February takes its first grasp of the reader's attention with eight portraits of Lincoln (several of them very rare), some twenty other Lincoln pictures, and an account, abounding in vivid personal details, of Lincoln's misfortunes as a country merchant; of his entrance into the legislature, and the beginning of his acquaintance with Douglas; of his work as a village postmaster and a deputy county surveyor; of his study of Shakespeare and Burnes and a copy of Blackstone found by chance in a barrel of refuse; and of his romantic courtship of Ann Rutledge...