Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quickly he explained: "Just received a free copy of TIME and it's wonderful. Please read...
...read it thoroughly, with an analytical eye. I was proud that my boy should have picked out such a publication as TIME. He showed that his education had not been neglected and was bearing wonderful fruit. I waited for the next episode...
...taken French 1, French 2, or German 1a, all deemed sufficient for a reading knowledge, knows that passing these courses may mean almost anything but a knowledge of French or German. It may mean a ready ability to use trots, to remember passages read over by some one else, to memorize certain books laboriously translated; but only incidentally will it mean a facility in reading French or German. Scarcely, if at all, better are the special language examinations. A little luck in hitting a passage seen somewhere before, a knack of guessing at words and construction under the pressure...
Commenting upon Walter Hampden's recent statement that the level of the stage would be lowered if Shakespeare were abandoned, Mr. Howard said. "I always read Shakespeare with a good deal of boredom at first, but the longer I am on the stage, and the more I write myself, the more I appreciate the man's greatness. I hope to play Shakespeare before very long, if only to gratify a whim. The plays that he wrote and those of his contemporaries are unequalled as far as an actor is concerned...
Professor C. T. Copeland '82, will give a reading in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. Among the selections from the King James Version of the Bible that he will read are passages form the Book of Ruth, and the Book of Revelation. He will also read the story of Naaman and Ellsha from the fifth chapter of the second Book of Kings...