Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been intellectual, they have been content to be merely clever. It must be acknowledged that in this Puritan part of the world they have given us a new, if not an original point of view; they look upon the universe as a vast storehouse of possible amusements, and read, think and write, not in pursuit of truth, but for diversion. They all have written books; one or two of them have written well: but they are satisfied with their reputation for cleverness, and make no effort to reach anything deeper or higher...
...interesting paper which Mr. Brearley, '67, read before the Harvard Club of New York, he states, in a very clear and definite way, the disadvantages of our present elective system. He endeavors to show that the step which Harvard took in throwing open the electives to freshmen was premature. As we have no system of school education in America which brings young fellows of eighteen or nineteen to that point of maturity in thought, and to that extent of general academical knowledge which is reached by the German gymnasia, he argues that it is, in part at least, the duty...
Monday afternoon Mr. J. M. Merriam will read before History XX a paper on Civil Service...
...worth while to spend time upon that which can never be turned into bread. And, here, where we are not compelled to study literature, a large number of students, who make a specialty of science or the like, leave college without ever knowing what they ought to read, or having a desire to read. Yet a few well put and timely words might indeed work much good among those whose tastes are not yet formed. The Chaucer Readings are something; but they are not enough. So we should like to see some avowedly literary society, like...
...their rooms papered last fall and grumbled because the authorities took such precautions against the hanging of papers containing arsenic may now feel considerable self-satisfaction as they read of the cases of poisoning in Felton and in several Cambridge dwellings. The necessity of extreme care has been strongly emphasized the past few months, and all who contemplate having their rooms newly papered may well take every precaution for their health. We are surprised that the proprietors of Felton should have neglected to submit papers, which were to be hung on walls in the building, to a most careful examination...