Word: readings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SCENE, Recitation Room. Artful Student (who wishes to make a favorable impression on his French instructor, just before the Semiannuals). Monsieur, will you be good enough to tell me what books you would recommend me to read at sight outside of the class? Acute Instructor (who has been caught in the trap before). If you want something to read at sight, sir, I should recommend the books we have been using in the class...
Many of us noticed that in the last rhetoric examination those who had read and heard good English generally had good marks. Some, who by application and hard work had in other subjects done well, were surprised and provoked by their low standing. In this way only can we account for the fierce attack...
...remedy the matter seems to him unwise. We heartily agree with him that it would be very unwise to try to improve musical matters at Harvard by showing that it was "the thing" to sing at Yale or Amherst. Moreover, if he had taken the trouble to read carefully the article in the Crimson before attempting to criticise it, he would have found that no such method of exhortation was there attempted...
...course of readings from the Divine Comedy which Professor Norton has just begun in Boston will be similar to the course which was given here, but more in the form of lectures than of mere translations. This gives an excellent opportunity to get a clear idea of Dante's great work, and those who omitted to hear Professor Norton last winter should endeavor to attend this course, if they can manage to do so. An analysis of the portions omitted and comments on the portions read will secure a thorough understanding and enjoyment of the poem; and the readings will...
...school book. A great many people have crept into literature in this way, but it never was a respectable road, and of late years, since they have begun to write such books by machinery, there is no opening here by young writers. Fortunately about this time Smith began to read the New York Ledger, and soon determined to write instead a sensational novel of the highest order, which should reveal all the wickedness of a great city. To be sure, he had never been in a city; but genius will readily overcome such minor difficulties, so he set boldly...