Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was an unusually large number of students and visitors present at vespers last evening. After Dr. F. G. Peabody made the introductory prayer, the cxxxviii. Psalm was read by the congregation. Dr. Phillips Brooks spoke very feelingly of the incident of Christ in the wilderness. He said it was at this time that the Saviour of men first recognized in himself that inherent power of resisting evil which He observed other men did not possess. The speaker cautioned his hearers to beware of turning the powers they did possess to base ends, but to devote them to the development...
Those who elected Division A in Political Economy 1 will read for Monday chapter 1, book IV. of Mill...
...Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley, Park man, and the rest, but who, for lack of familiarity with Scott, must fail in his examination? Is Scott, then, the one writer of fiction whose works an American boy should read? Is there nothing in American literature that should command his attention? Is it your purpose to teach him that Hawthorne, Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson and Lowell are of minor consequence in comparison with Goldsmith and Scott? Shakespeare is a matter of course, and Milton ought to be, though your examination...
...authors reading has been arranged by the Alumnae of Wellesley College, in aid of the Norumbega fund of the college. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Mr. Arlo Bates, Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton and others will read selections from their own works and Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer will preside. The reading will take place in the parlors of the Revere House on Monday...
WEATHER STRIPS, Outside Windows, to keep out the wind and cold are now being put on by Powers, 30 Boylston street, Read's Building...