Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever results the thoroughly advertised book guilds may have had by and large, they have not made Trinity College undergraduates read serious books in their spare time. But Dr. Cadman's daily counsel got under someone's skin and now every man in the Hartford school will read a good back. In fact, throughout the year each student is going to read a great number of good books selected from a list of recommended works. There is no connection between this requirement and any course. On the contrary, it is outside reading for pleasure--with two pages of typed notes...
...months of paternalistic culture and Trinity will be in a position today claim to the title, "best read college in America." The possibilities for dinner and pullman car conversations that these informed men will enjoy, are unlimited. No need for Trinity graduates to depend on. Vanity Fair talk as an avenue for popularity. And surely they will be able to sit down for fifteen minutes with a newspaper without fear of neglecting the classics they know so well. The only disadvantage in the idea is that it will be so easy to spot a Trinity man in any gathering...
...Phillips Brooks House Association will hold its annual dinner and business meeting at 7 o'clock this evening, at which time brief reports of the year's work will be read by the retiring officers...
...days later Tsar Boris went to Prague and attended a performance of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. The manager of the theatre, glancing through a prompt copy of the play, noticed that the scene was laid in Bulgaria, and read the line: "My father never had a bath in his life." Bulgaria was hastily changed to Albania, and the performance was given with great success...
Yeshiva College consolidates the movement for Hebrew education which has been spreading throughout the country for the past decade. In the U. S., Talmud Torahs were formerly old, elementary schools for teaching Jewish boys (and occasionally girls) to read Hebrew as a dead language. Now U. S. Talmud Torahs teach Jewish culture, and Hebrew as a living tongue. Every city with a large Jewish population has such elementary schools supervised by bureaus of Jewish Education. In some cities Jews have demanded that their Talmud Torahs be recognized as are Catholic parochial schools. Generally they have been refused...