Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...88.THE SPARRING QUESTION. II.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I read with pleasure your editorial condemning the petition to make Mr. Ferris a paid instructor of the university. I am in favor of giving all possible exercise to the students and as much instruction in athletics as is reasonable; but I think that until the experiment of having a paid assistant in the gymnasium and for general athletics, has been tested by some years of experience it is too soon to talk about engaging any further instructors, especially for special lines of instruction...
German 3 begins to read Herder...
Then, in order to do something striking, to scare people, we try to bring in the fantastic and horrible. But unluckily we have never seen what is fantastic or horrible. At most we have only read about such things; as a full realization of the matter is yet beyond us. Accordingly, when we try to write in this forced way, our productions are simply weak and unnatural...
...French Readings. Edmond About, La Mere de la Marquise. Mr. Sanderson. Sever 11, 7.45 p.m. *** Professor Cohn will read La Fontaine's Fables...
...would say it is in the first place simple, and in the second place economical. While the old term-bill had to be turned about at two or three different angles before the happy recipient could satisfy his thrilling interest in its contents, the new bill may be read, like any other bill, with less trouble and in less time. The economy of the revised form is of course quite of the subjective sort, for the figures at the right are not materially changed from those of former years. But on the whole we call the new form a decided...