Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...requirement for admission was found: "When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classical Latine Authour ex tempore, & make and speake true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of Nounes and verbes in ye Greeke toungue then may hee bee admitted into ye Colledge, nor shall any claime admission before such qualifications." In 1734 one record shows in addition to the above, "Whoever shall be able to read, construe & parse ordinary Greek, as in the New Testament, Socrates or such like, and be skilled in making Latin verse...
...this period the degrees were called "first" and "second" degrees, that is A.B. and A.M. In 1602 the requirement for first degree was: "Every Scholar that on proofe is found able to read ye originall of ye old & New testament into ye Latin tongue, and to Resolve them logically, withall beeing of honest life & conversation and at any publike act hath ye approbation of ye overseers, & Master of ye Colledge may bee invested with his first degree." Upon taking his first degree, a student was called, following the practice of the English universities, "Dominus" or "Sir," a title used...
...Tormo the Trout" by Mr. Weston is a daintily worded and slightly mystie sketch of the sort that is pleasant to read but which leaves no particular impression on the reader's mind. Mr. McCormick's vivid study based on a shipwreck makes a definite impression. So little emphasis is laid on the first phase of the story, however, that the plot does not receive the full benefit of the sharp contrast as the character develops...
...other essay which particularly held my attention is one on "How Harvard News Becomes Distorted." With most entertaining examples, Mr. Kennedy shows us--but the space assigned me for reviewing this "Interesting" number of the Illustrated has come to an end; and you must read for yourself...
...articles appealed most to me personally. One was on "Culture or Cramming," in which, under a rather sensational title, Mr. Larrabee gives a very broad-minded, sane, and--again I repeat the word--interesting exposition of his views on the present well-read-ness (or better, if I must coin a word anyhow) ill-read-ness of the average Harvard undergraduate...