Word: reading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wish to call to the notice of the Cornell Review, the Nassau Lit., and the Hamilton Literary Monthly, the stanza we quote this week from the Rugby Meteor. If they read this, and then ask themselves why they exist, we hope for the best result...
...read the mournful simile...
...such an improper thing; and in the April number is an article by Rev. Benjamin W. Dwight on "Intercollegiate Regattas, Hurdle-Races, and Prize Contests," to which I wish to call the unregenerate reader's attention. Knowing that it is too much to expect the above desperate character to read anything so respectable as the original, I venture to give a few selected bits, very much as the members of the B. L. B. U. E. T. A. used to print the decalogue in gaudy colors on pocket-handkerchiefs and express them to the South Sea Islanders, utterly oblivious...
...points that Mill has touched you feel that completeness characteristic of a master mind." "No," he said, " I prefer Spencer. His philosophy is cosmic. You feel a completeness of a higher kind here than in Mill." "By the way," said I, "what books of Spencer have you read?" "Well," he said, "I can't exactly say that I have read any, but I know exactly what he teaches. What books of Mill have you read?" "Well," I said, "I can't exactly say that. I have read any, but I know exactly what he teaches...
Does not this show an aching void in the student mind waiting to be filled, that we must needs speculate of these authors whether we read them...