Word: readers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...heroine named Inez, and brave a villain named Morang, and go through savage ceremonies with bolos and nipa and tuba and other atmospheric perils, finally to be buried to the neck with syrup on his face and a swarm of red ants turned loose on him?--Shudder not, gentle reader, he is rescued in time to save his manly beauty, and the story ends with the fair Inez leaning over his hospital cot murmuring "Sh, dear...
...Graham Wallas, reader in Political Science at the University of London, will give the fourth of his series of lectures on "The Man Behind the Vote" at the Lowell Institute tonight at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be free and open to the public, but admission will be by ticket only...
...that does not mean that his audience tonight will not be as large as usual, and as appreciative. It means simply that some are going to miss a delightful evening. Barrie and Henley are not as familiar to us as Kipling and O. Henry, but we know the reader well enough to trust to his judgment in choosing...
...course of four lectures on "France and American in Contact in the Past," by Professor Fernand Baldensperger of the University of Paris; to be given on Monday afternoons at 5 o'clock and a course of eight lectures on "The Man behind the Vote" by Mr. Graham Wallas, M.A., Reader in Political science in the University of London, to be given on Monday and Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock...
...usually is best. Mr. Whistlerr's plea for strict nonprofessionalism in amateur athletics stands out as the most noteworthy contribution to the magazine. The exposition is admirably clear and just, the illustrations are well chosen, and there is a maturity in the style which is most grateful to the reader. "The Joy of being a Freshman," by Mr. Murdock, is in humorous vein, and enjoys a real merit among pieces of its kind in making fun moderately and in having a vital subject. The writer has discovered a truth is too late,--that of all four years at college there...