Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Edward Channing will read a paper at the meeting of the American Historical Society in Washington, on a "New England Aristocracy...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Please allow me to state through your columns that the criticism of the work done in Political Economy I, which was read by Professor Laughlin yesterday morning, was not written...
...been describing the day before as unprincipled and corrupt. I am sorry that Mr. Lodge could have given us no other advice than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life, and that the devil should always be fought with fire. If Mr. Lodge will read the history of the Anti-Slavery contest, which he is so fond of quoting, he cannot discover one apology for evil, or one compromise with evil men and methods made by any one of the little band of Abolitionists; and no one can dispute their great and lasting success...
...then shall a man form the habit of reading? Perhaps the easiest means, and this is the means next generally advised, is simply to "browse" through the library. But this aimless wandering inculcates the habit of indiscriminate reading, a habit not to be classed with the custom of omnivorous reading, which is, perhaps, the only safe method to be pursued in a determined course of reading. An omnivorous reader is almost invariably a a thinker of acumen. There is something in being brought face to face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree...
...elective system, to the discussion of which, so large a part of the recent report is given. Indeed, a lack of interest in these matters would not be very complimentary, in what it would imply to students at Harvard. We are glad that the report has been so widely read, and think that its wide circulation is well calculated to increase the influence of Harvard...