Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Twice within a year or so I have read references to F. G. Bonfils, publisher of the Denver Post, in your columns. The first was occasioned by the entrance of Scripps-Howard into the Denver newspaper field. That article, while it mingled fiction and fact, was not, as a whole, unkindly. . . . The second article, published in your issue of Jan. 9 and dealing with the dedication of his great fortune to the cause of humanity, was totally lacking in these attributes. On first reading it seemed to drip venom. After a second perusal, however, I doubt if its maliciousness...
...neither a comedy nor a tragedy, but only a bore; yet some more charitable form of recreation might be their choice. If scholastic dignity should forbid the playing of cards, chess, checkers, or any of the lighter diversions of mankind, and there is nothing for it but to read the bluebooks as they are handed in, let them read in silence; let open mirth be restrained until the last victim has been led from the scene, and then let the rafters resound with Jovian laughter over the mistakes of mortals...
Dean Hanford makes no mention of one factor in the situation, the excellent co-operation of the library authorities in dealing with the new problem, and of the professors themselves, in assigning reading lists in most cases of such length as could actually be read. For the eventual outcome, the machinery of University Hall must be consulted, and the mailing cards as they come straggling in. Possibly the most salient fact which has been brought home to the undergraduate has been an old adage about procrastination; and the next reading period will find work begun earlier and done more regularly...
...subjects treated and so full of material and evidence that it would be impossible at once to do them justice editorially in the limited amount of space available in most newspapers. The CRIMSON this morning attempts to offer its readers a digest of a report that should be read in full. In order that those interested in particular subjects may be informed of President Lowell's views of them in tote, the CRIMSON proposes during the next week or so to reprint the Report in sections according to the subjects treated, and will offer at the same time such editorial...
...though the industry of the undergraduate seems proclaimed in these facts, it does not necessarily follow that the midyear marks will show a generally higher average. Admitting that most of the tests have laid a distinct emphasis on the Reading Period assignments, there seems to be an almost unanimous sentiment among students that these assignments were often too heavy, and that as a result, the midyear examination found the student either insufficiently read or ill-reviewed on the work which preceded the Christmas recess...