Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Romance Philology Seminar held on Monday last proved to be very interesting to the dozen men or so who attended After Prof. Sheldon had read his paper, its contents were discussed quite freely by his listeners...
...with sincere pleasure that we read of the intended celebration of our younger sister, Columbia; and our pleasure is the most sincere because we ourselves have just been eating the birthday cake of our own beloved alma mater. Though adversity and prosperity - and she has had a large dose of both - Columbia has always held up her head with the proudest. Contending as she has done, against the many disadvantages which are sure to attend a college situated in the heart of a great city, she has honorably proved her right to existence; she has gradually been shaking...
...will say this much to it. In my letter I deplored the fact that English literature was but taught in a fragmentary fashion here, although the fragments might be very highly polished; and F. W. K. will surely remember my words concerning Prof. Child. The stimulus towards reading, (and extensive reading), gained from connection with English 7 and 8, I have never before been aware of; but I am quite sure that even the theses which are read in the class, (and which consume a vast amount of time uselessly,) are not perfect guide books to the "literary path...
...most encouraging aspects of the system of instruction now employed in the university is the indisputable fact that the students are led to do very much more reading than was customary in former years. The figures which we published some days ago about the increased circulation of the month of November are in themselves the best indicators of this change. It would be uncharitable and unreasonable to suppose that the books are taken out and returned unread. We may therefore assert that nearly 2000 more volumes were read in the month of November of this year than in any other...
...Anniversary glorification, so appropriate and well-deserved, we hesitate to refer to the fact that, if we are not a "bigger" institution than it, we are an older one. But we are forced to do so by the statement in Mr. Lowell's address, which, if we rightly read it asserts that there were no public schools till several years after Harvard was founded. We think we have cause to comment, also, upon the neglect in all the addresses to refer to this earlier and, perhaps, not less important institution. - Latin School Register...