Word: reading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the Board of Directors of Memorial Hall, on Wednesday evening, the resignation of Mr. G. W. Williams, one of the Directors from '82, was read and accepted. It was voted to rescind the rule which provides that allowance for temporary absence shall only be given for whole weeks beginning on Thursday morning, and that in future allowance shall be granted for every whole week of absence, on whatever day of the week that absence begins. The Board meets again next Monday evening...
...weeks ago the Boston Sunday Herald had a long article on the facilities for escaping from fire in the College buildings. To the surprise of those who have read previous articles of the Herald on Harvard matters, the facts that were stated were correct and the deductions just. The matter has often been mentioned in the past, and the placing of fire-escapes upon Matthews and Holyoke has been the result of the attention which has been drawn to the matter. We propose to continue letting people know of the danger in other buildings, until they too are made safe...
...Padre Lippo," said I, "what can you find me to read for to-morrow...
...leisurely read through the chapters...
...understand, then," said I, "that anything, from Rabelais to Scarron, may be read and conned eight hours of the day, within these walls, by any lad of fifteen, and yet not read, outside, by any man under eighty. Here are your books; take them back to their alcoves to be purified by the dust of ages and dog-eared by interested youth. Well, can you give me Praed's poems...