Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Bayard W. Read, son of the late Financier William A. Read (Dillon, Read & Co.); to be an assistant secretary of Central Hanover Bank (Manhattan), successor organization to Central Trust Co., of which his father was a longtime trustee...
...most of the millions who read the Hearst press the last phrase probably meant nothing. To Miss Charlotte Haxall Noland it was, though Colyumist Brisbane is notoriously free with his superlatives, an accolade. The Best Girls' School in the Land, her creation, is only 15 years old. Its name is Foxcroft. Only 75 girls may go there at a time, tuition $2,500 each per annum. Foxcroft has an elite waiting list...
...children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered as an example of what would be more suitable, a story about a child named Peter who "ate 'n ate 'n ate spinach and loved and loved to drink his milk every day until he was strong enough to lift his little horse Trott Trott high over his head...
...library was well supplied with the best works of all sorts. It was generally deserted. I requisitioned it. Secluded, far from the tumult of the streets, in a little room inaccessible to the few visitors that came, I read the best historians and philosophers. Days, weeks passed. It lasted two years. My mind acquired there what it lacked; there my intellect completed its formation. It was a delight...
Class C: Union Boat Club defeated Harvard University, 4 to 1. Read (U. B. C.) defeated Edward Orlandini '32, 15-17, 15-8, 15-6: Barker (U. B. C.) defeated Owen Appleton '32, 15-12, 15-10, 15-13: G. T. Emmet, Jr. '31 defeated Erskine (U. B. C.), 15-9, 18-17, 15-8; Sawyer (U. B. C.) defeated C. W. Eiseman '30, 15-10, 15-18, 10-15, 15-11, 15-11: Thomas (U. B. C.) defeated J. C. Howe...