Word: reading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject or set of subjects, defeat the object of honors by warping, more than disciplining and cultivating, the mind. Undoubtedly the age and antecedents of the student determine the advisability of such a course. All that can safely be said is that, for a man of little general reading, little knowledge beyond the text-books of the first two years in college, the exclusiveness of an honor course is extremely deleterious; to a more generally read man, extremely beneficial...
...begun somewhere in the third book, and read away till I came to where my preparation stopped. I paused and looked up at my master. "Go on," said he. "Five minutes more...
...detain the government of his country longer. He felt, too, that they cared little to hear him often, as they had approved of his appointment to a foreign mission which would necessarily keep him away for a long time. He was reminded, too, of something which he had read in his diplomatic instructions, and it was fortunate that he had not thought of it a moment sooner, and that was, that all persons in a diplomatic capacity are strictly prohibited from speech-making. They are allowed, indeed, to make a speech on a festive occasion, but it must...
...reading Horace, are you?" said be, "I should like to have you read some to me; I really do not know how they teach it now. Diana, my dear, fetch me the Odes of Horace...
...other visits did n't prosper much, but I went to the Archibalds' very often. Always there were fifteen minutes of Latin, always a sudden disappearance of papa, always an hour or so of music. I used to read my Horace up beforehand, which was very well, but that I would read so much in the fifteen minutes. And this fluency of mine brought on a catastrophe, of which this is the story...