Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Paragraph 2, General Orders No. 3, c.s., is hereby amended to read: Company Commanders will read to their companies at each drill all general orders, but only so much of all special orders as apply to their commands...
...tradition? At any event, the story has often been heard that the time of the call to morning prayers was determined there, some generations ago, by loud ringing of the chapel bell at the precise moment when the undergraduate, to whom the duty was assigned, found it possible to read, by the advancing light of day, the print of a newspaper officially approved for this delicate test. That was daylight-saving with a vengeance. --Boston Transcript...
This morning I read with great consternation your leading editorial on "Eight O'clock Nine O'clock." That the Student Council should take upon itself the regulation of College hours and the College fuel conservation program, and that the editorial chairman of your good paper should support so vivaciously and perhaps cocksure this step, is, I believe, an example of high-handed interference in the privileges and duties of certain College officials by immature undergraduates...
...merely a "filler" or, indeed, it may have been written in the same lighter vein as the one concerning the expected visit to America of a member of the deposed House of Romaneff, which appeared some weeks ago on your second page, or many others, which I have read and forgotten...
...freight service between places with poor railroad connection. A project has lately appeared to start such a system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom done in times of peace has been made a daily necessity by war-time needs. Rivalry for the supremacy of the air is a forceful incentive to make machines...