Word: reading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...read for some time, when I was aroused by a tap on the shoulder...
...would go over to read in the Library. I had been here nearly two months, and had never entered the building. It's not fashionable, you know; but it would be so awkward to be questioned about it in society. I must get posted, and what better opportunity than this Saturday afternoon when everybody was away? So over I went...
...editors of the Williams Athenaeum read the Freshmen a very interesting lecture; they are exhorted to do "earnest, steady, and persistent work," not only in their studies, but in ball-playing, athletics, and literature (given, we suppose, in what the editors consider their order of importance), "not to be a nontenity in college life." nor to " shut themselves up between the covers of their lexicons" (which, by the way, we should hardly have considered as one of the natural instincts of a Freshman), but generally to assert themselves, and make themselves "felt and respected in all places." What a sweet...
...want subscribers, - a thousand, - if that number will come. Our club rates may be learned by glancing at the advertisement which appears on the outside page: Read and work." - Niagara Index...
...Index might have saved itself the trouble of putting in the last word. In its case read and work are beyond a doubt synonymous. We must acknowledge, however, the justice of some remarks about the Advocate and the Crimson...