Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Crimson, Yale News and Princetonian are much read at the reading-room, where we have placed them by request of the association. - Williams Fortnight...
...early days "the undergraduates were required to read in the Old Testament, from the Hebrew into Greek, excepting the freshmen, who were allowed to use their English Bibles." This reading was followed by an exposition of the passages, which was given by the President, who concluded with prayer. In 1708, this "ancient and laudable practice," of requiring translations from the Scriptures, which it appears had fallen into disuse, was again revived. In 1723, however, it was discontinued...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I read with some surprise your editorial in Monday's issue concerning our Canadian relatives. You expressed some little astonishment that there were but three Canadians now in college, and compared their number with the number of Californians now here. You might better compare their number with the number of Englishmen at Harvard, or with the number of Americans now at Oxford or Cambridge. In the first place, Canada is not as rich a country as, - say California, and the mere fact that her territory adjoins the United States, is no reason why she should contribute...
...meeting of the Reform Club in Boston on Saturday evening, Prof. Taussig spoke on the "Continuation of Silver Coinage." Gen. F. A. Walker of the Institute of Technology also spoke on the same subject. A letter from Mr. Edward Clark was read...
...will be remembered by urging Harvard students to take some such interest in the labor question as is taken by university men in England and Germany. That the present is as opportune a time as any for stimulating such an interest, can be seen by any one who has read the daily papers for the past week. Yet so far as accomplishing anything in this direction goes, Mr. Brooks' lectures seem to have fallen flat...