Word: reading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...young man of a prudent turn of mind, who has just entered Harvard College, applied for insurance on his property in a prominent office in New York. A portion of the policy returned read as follows: "Insurance is effected on his education, raw, wrought, and in process, and materials for completing the same, including library of printed books, bookcases, musical instruments, eye-glasses and canes, statuary and works of art, wearing apparel, beds and bedding, contained in No. -, Thayer Hall, College Yard, Cambridge. Permission to work-extra hours, not later than 10 P. M., to even up work...
...speaking of the "groundless insinuations which every author who has to speak of the Jesuits mingles with his commendations," says: "Among American authors, Parkman is notably culpable in this respect. The minds of the younger scions of Parkman's circle of readers, or of such of them as read the Harvard Magenta, are in like manner carefully poisoned by such writings as those of 'V. J. R.' on Education in France, in that paper." We shudder at the thought of the moral responsibility we are under for having published such articles. The warning comes too late, however...
Their inmost secrets she can read...
...lends an added meaning to the lines, and proves that the true essence of poetry is there which appeals to the feelings of all man-kind. A reader's ticket to the Athenaeum will introduce you to a very paradise of books, and the very cosiest of places to read them in. I am convinced that surroundings contribute much to the delights of reading; and to no place does that indescribable, but always appreciable, literary atmosphere so much attach as to the Athenaeum library. It has become impregnated with the romance of the books with which it is filled...
When the boating matters had been decided, Mr. Morgan, of the Committee appointed to manage the class supper, read a letter from the proprietor of the American House of Boston, in which he said that he would furnish the supper for the class "provided they would not forget their position as gentlemen." Mr. Morgan said that the Committee had met with the greatest difficulty in getting any one to prepare the supper, both Parker's and the Revere refusing to do so because of the disgraceful conduct of the last two Sophomore classes, and that it is to be hoped...