Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have before us a collection of fourteen drawings by Mr. Van Schaick very much after the fashion of the drawings in "Life"; yet as a whole, more finished and pleasant. Each is accompanied by its scrap of conversation, which we read, of course, and then laugh at abstractedly as we look again at the drawing that has as much to do with anything else as the joke attached to it. It is strange that this society picture with its inane joke dangling below should be so popular. Yet "The Lorgnette" is better than the usual collection of the sort...
...opened by the singing of the anthem by the choir. Dr. Peabody in his short prayer then spoke of the fitness of such an hour of quiet retreat, in which our hard, intellectual life may be softened by an appeal to our emotional nature. The 39th psalm was then read. Following this was Buck's superb "Lead, Kindly Light," sung by the Temple Quartet. Dr. Gordon then read the 19th psalm, upon which he founded his address. He urged very forcibly that only by the emotional feeling life can man achieve great nobleness. The intellectual life is much...
...says that "it is easier to lounge in an easy chair and read a book or two in connection with a certain course, than to sit at a desk in the library, or in your own room and learn from consultation from a number of writers and books what the real ethics of a question is." We heartily agree with him. It is much easier to sit in an easy chair, but if we sit at our desk - in our own room to - and discard the easy chair, isn't it rather hard on "'88" if we get the very...
...wish to do our work in a fragmentary manner - and fragmentary it must be, if we cannot find the reserved books, or if some other man finds them before us? It is a matter of reproach that we sit in our rooms - aye, in an easy chair, and read our history as a connected whole, working from the beginning - cause and result - and not as ninety nine cases out of a hundred we must have done with the topic reading: - working up the result and leaving the cause till next week? It is not the amount of work merely, that...
...vogue in History 13, shows a new side of this already much discussed subject. Heretofore we have heard of nothing but complaints. but now a champion comes to defend. Whoever is dissatisfied with what he is doing in History 13, and desires a new plan adopted had better read our correspondent's letter and make his decision once more. The work in History 13, no doubt, looks appalling to a man who has never seen anything like it before, but a little practice will enable him to work as economically under the present system as under any other. What...