Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this seems damning with faint praise, the trouble is not so much with the Advocate as with the reviewer. For such work he, like all his colleagues, is too old. College papers are written by undergraduates to be read by undergraduates. Are not undergraduates the best people to review them? Any officer of the College, even "the young assistant," must have a point of view so different from that of undergraduates that to him the most conspicuous trait of undergraduate publications is likely to be youth. Now we may all, like the middle-aged teller of Mr. Conrad's glorious...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland will give the last of his readings for the year in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. Professor Copeland will read extracts from Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
...subjects have supplied more lasting material for our esteemed fellow contemporary, the Lampoon, than the bitter contests in the libraries which precede the tests in the large reading courses. There is considerable humor in the picture of a University member--and this is a true story--hurrying to the Boston Public Library by taxicab to secure a copy of a dollar and a half book which he is required to read by the following morning. Yet nearly every undergraduate, although his remedy may have differed, has been in much the same plight...
...regular meeting of the Student Council will be held tonight. It is important that all members should attend, as the Secretary's report to the Student Council on the work of the Executive Committee for the first half-year will be read...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, will give the last of his readings for the year in the Dining Room of the Union on Wednesday evening at 9 o'clock. Professor Copeland will read extracts from Bret Harte's. "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and some of Mark Twain's writings. The doors will be opened at 8.45 o'clock and closed promptly at nine. After that time no one will be admitted...