Word: reading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very much astonished to read, in the last issue of this paper, a wholesale attack, unsupported by facts or by any strong arguments, against the system of buying books for the Library. The writer's grievances seem to be: first, that the Library owns only one copy of "some of the standard books of reference" (the italics are our own); secondly, that "the Library fund is being expended in trashy French novels, or massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion...
C.ON Monday next Mr. Everett finishes his reading of the "greatest effort of human genius," on which occasion it is his pleasure to read the 11th Book...
...read a few pages more, when my attention was again distracted by a pair of eyes, - large, deep, lustrous eyes. They walked over to the opposite table and registered. Then they surveyed the room, looking up and down, falling here and there, and withering "dig" after "dig" with their piercing gaze. At last, they too walked out; and I was surprised to see every man straightway leave his seat to seek the name of the fair visitor. They crowded about the book, and I heard a disappointed voice say, "Keokuk, Iowa." It was a clear case of "Go West, young...
...just finished reading the last chapter of that old, dirty, torn copy of Jane Eyre which belongs to the University Library, and which has been read evidently by thousands of dirty-fingered students, some of whom have greatly enhanced the intrinsic value of the book by wise criticisms and marginal sarcasm. The sombre cast of the tale made me gloomy. I thought of my degree and the chance I had of obtaining it. I hastily reviewed in my mind the three years I had already gone over, and thought how many mistakes I had made. Why had I not chosen...
PROFESSOR PALMER will read the sixth book of the Odyssey on the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving recess, and it will probably be the last of his series of readings this year...