Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effects upon the common intellectual life of the college. It has certainly produced a great increase in intellectual intercourse and spontaneous association for intellectual objects among students." The discussion on the "meaning of the Bachelor's degree" is another of the special subjects in the report that will be read with interest...
Greek 8 will soon begin to read Aristotle...
...connection with the lecture of Tuesday evening we would also say a word about the arrangements for lighting the reading desk in Sever 11. The gas jets are so arranged as to throw their full glare on the lecturer's face and eyes, so that it is painful to read or speak from the platform. It is very disagreeable, too, for the audience to be compelled to watch the speaker in his struggle with the light. A drop-light could easily be furnished. It would give relief both to the lecturer and to his hearers...
...sketch of Charles Russell Lowell is a work of great merit, and cannot fail to thrill all who read it with its tale of a noble life bravely done. "Sorrow and Stillness," by Mr. Sanborn, distinctly lacks melody, and contains several unmusical halting lines. The feeling is strong and the expression good. "A Second Empedocles," by Mr. Sanford, is, to say the least, a strange effort. It is incongruous and decidedly lacks force. The Latin quotations mar the form and weaken the passion aimed at by the writer. One does not quote a Latin translation of Homer in the death...
...club or a dinner party, and sometimes obtains a butterfly reputation in literature, but he does not shine at the bar, he will never sit upon the bench, or arrive at eminence among the faculty, These positions are won by square jawed men, who can neither make nor read vers de societe, but who have the tenacity of a bull-terrier and the ambition of Lucifer. They are certainly offensive in their way - unpleasantly successful and aggressive; but they carry through very definite ends, and compel even the dilletante's unwilling respect. - Boston Transcript...