Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GERMAN READINGS.Mr. Hochdorfer's last reading from German Ballad-Poets will occur on March 8. He will read Schiller's "Song of the Bell...
...Magenta," named from the prevailing college color at that time, was founded with the old motto, "I won't philosophize, and I will be read." It appeared on alternate weeks with the "Advocate," but in no wise interfered with that periodical, as it was devoted to the publication of news and statistics, while the "Advocate," as now, was purely literary. In the spring of '75, when the college color was changed, the name was changed with the color and it was known during the rest of its existence as "The Crimson...
...students of Amherst will shortly have the "Chariot Race" from Ben Hur read to them by its author, Gen. Lew. Wallace...
...Advocate," and the latter is a necessary condition to the success of a paper. From this answer we gain no warrant to say that college papers should be filled by anything else than matter written by students. But we are told that we all like to read articles by our professors and by well-known outside writers. True, but we can read such things in any periodical of the day; we don't need to take up a college periodical for that...
...periodical called "The Harvard Register" was initiated into the world of literature. It was published once a month, its editors being members of the senior class. The motto adopted by its founders, Byron's famous dictum, "I won't philosophize, and I will be read," seems to indicate that the lesson of the failure of its predecessor had been learned and that ponderous articles would be eschewed. Among its more famous editors were C. C. Felton, later professor of Greek and president of the University, George S. Hilliard and Robert B. Winthrop. Many articles of real literary merit appeared...