Word: readings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Calderon, the Courtier," a short story and one little read, is excellently told, and is replete with information concerning the conspiracies and intrigues connected with the court of Charles V. of Spain...
...them, however, consider the matter candidly. The Yale Lit. is of the character proposed. As a rule it is "intolerably dull" - we use the Courant's words - in those parts where it differs from less pretentious periodicals. The same was true of similar magazines formerly published in Cambridge. Few read them, and they soon died. The reason is not hard to find. The thoughts of very young men are usually crude, and to every one but themselves almost worthless; besides, it is hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears...
...philosophize, I will be read...
...will be with no ordinary feeling of satisfaction that the students of the College proper will read these words...
...England colleges, in a recent prospectus, holds out as an inducement to students the fact that it employs no tutors. In contrast with this notion, that young teachers are to be tolerated only because older ones are not to be had, it is interesting to read in President Eliot's Report these words...