Word: readings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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After the words "development as oarsmen," the rest of the section shall be omitted, and shall read...
...would not suggest a course of professional reading, but the perusal of works which give polish and culture. To many the question must naturally arise, "What shall I read?" In answer, we can do no better than quote the words of an old writer on the same subject: "In brief, sir, study what you most affect." The remark is full of truth, and it seems only natural that whatever most interests us we shall study and read to the greatest effect...
...President began with a short prayer. He then read a chapter in the Bible. After this he prayed again. The poem was then delivered, after which the singing club, accompanied by the band, performed William's Friendship. This was succeeded by a valedictory Latin oration. We then formed, and waited on the government to the President's, where we were very respectably treated with wine...
...desiring to see a rather extravagant example of the spirit that crops out in all our exchanges from mixed colleges, will find it in the Cornell Era of May 8, under an article on "Dancing and its Results." They must read the Bible and Prayer-Book a good deal at Cornell, for in two articles in this number they succeed in working in four phrases cribbed from these standard authorities...
...desires to lose one of the most graceful bits of modern English writing, he will do well to omit to read "A Rose in June," now appearing in the Every Saturday, and copied from the Cornhill Magazine. In the number of June 6 appears an ably written criticism, or rather eulogy, on the father of the English novel, Henry Fielding. It contains a much-needed reproof of the hypocritical morality of the present day, which prevents one of the purest and most truthful of authors from being read...