Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...library is as yet incomplete but contains most of the best works of English literature, together with the best of foreign literature, history, biography and travel. The room is intended to be a place where those who want to read for the sake of reading may come, leaving the reading room for special college courses to the larger reading rooms...
...been appointed warden of Sing Sing and to explain the league which he had instituted there. He showed how willing the prisoner was to do his part if an opportunity was given him. To prove this he cited instances where men had gone out and led straight lives, and read extracts from several letters, of which the most significant one was the following: "You ask me how I have been doing. I should be an awful fur if I should make a promise and then break it. You never want to be untrue to your friends, and those men back...
...either university the students who, like De Quincey, enter thinking of some obscure text of the "Parmenuides," must be rare. Scholars are consoling themselves over Cambridge, if we may believe a London weekly with the thought that students are told, "If you cannot read the Iliad you can act it." The pleasure of putting this into Greek verse might have compensated Porson for the blow the step would have struck him. --The Nation...
...happened to be dining at Memorial with my son on Friday evening last and I have read with much interest your editorial of this morning. My experience was, to say the least, most disagreeable, as I was not only struck on the head with a large piece of ice, but was almost blinded by pepper, thrown in a napkin by some cheerful idiot, and which struck me full in the face. I merely mention this, as in you editorial I notice that you omitted to mention "Pepper" as a part of this intellectual exhibition. A. K. ROBKRTS...
When we re-read books which interested us intensely a long time ago, we learn the origin of many of our "peculiar and original" ideas and prejudices. We, furthermore, realize the strong influence an absorbing book has on character and how dangerous it would be to ourselves, to the community and to the world at large, if we read the biographies of library vandals, ticket scalpers and horse thieves. --The Pennsylanian...