Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...communication from the executive committee of the Harvard Union. The charges recently made by the Advocate that the Union was degenerating and that meaningless speeches met with applause, and that ranting was considered brilliant, are reviewed at length. We hope that all the friends of the Union will read all the articles upon the subject which have been published, and thoughtfully make an unbiased judgment, for if the charges made by the Advocate and our correspondent are true, the training which the speakers in the Union are getting must be very harmful to their powers of expression, to their modes...
...section in Greek 9 will begin to read the Eumenides on Tuesday...
...Corey read his dissertation on the Dionysiac Theatre last night before an appreciative audience. The first excavations on the site of the theatre which had been covered, for nobody knows how many years were made by the Archaeological Association of Athens. But they were attended by little or no success...
...hope that everyone will read in another column Mr. Wendell's communication explaining the unfortunate thefts from the gymnasium. The extravagant scandals which have grown from the affair, are, as most of us in college know, due to the industry of certain undergraduate reporters for the Boston dailies. We have often spoken of the untrustworthy accounts of college matters which come out in these papers, and have urged that more care be taken in the future; but mere remonstrance has no effect. Some of these reporters are not content with merely writing what is in execrable taste; newspaper exaggeration does...
...this is evidently the work of the paste-pot editor, we would suggest that the Spirit hunt up another man for the position, and be careful to get one who can read ordinary English aright, and one too, who is not so bigoted that he thinks a man incapable of common sense simply because he is a college undergraduate...