Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent discussion of the best method to adopt, in the improvement of style in writing revives the subject of college reading. A well read college man is a rarety; almost an anomily. It is true that we cannot all with Mill read Thucydides in the cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that...
...DROPPERS, Sec'y.There will be a meeting of the Boylston Chemical Club, Tuesday evening, March 23, 1886, at 7.30 p.m., in Sever 1. Numerous papers will be read...
...petitions for voluntary prayers have passed through one more stage of their existence. Ten days ago the Corporation read the petitions and sent them to the Overseers without taking any action. Yesterday the Overseers received the petitions, and postponed consideration of them for one week. Now that all the usual resorts in the conducting of important business have been tried, it is fair to expect that some action will be taken at the adjourned meeting next week. At least, it is likely that a committee will be appointed. Further, it is not in our power to prophecy...
...ball with painted frill fastened in the head of the coffin; while the spade-bearers plied their spades industriously in digging the grave. The elegist then - in the most excessively mock-sanctimonious manner, amid sighs and sobs and groans and lamentations which might have been heard for a mile, read an address and a poem." The address was a very amusing eulogy on the character and merits of the dearly beloved and highly respected game. After the address the gifted speaker read a poem in honor of the deceased, which was an excellent parody on the "Burial of Sir John...
...three petitions for voluntary attendance at morning prayers from the college at large, the Law School and O. K. Society, were brought up and read before the Corporation of the college at its meeting in Boston yesterday. Further than the reading and the referring the petitions to the Overseers, no action was taken. The Board of Overseers hold their next stated meeting Wednesday, March 17, and at that time the prayer petitions will be read and discussed...