Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Shaler, at his initiation into the Signet on Thursday night, read a paper on "Sympathy as Shown in Custom." He has a book in preparation on the subject...
...great inconvenience because they are unable to refer to articles which bear on the subject in hand. >These bound periodicals are essentially books of reference, and should not be allowed to leave the library except upon the conditions which govern the use of reserved books in the reading-room. It is seldom that anyone desires to read more than one of the fifty or more articles which are contained in a volume, and this could easily be done in an hour. But a man if allowed to keep out a book a month, will be in no hurry to return...
...Jones sets out in a few days for a reading trip through central New York. He will read in Utica, Syracuse, Hornelsville, Elmira, and three or four other places...
...evolution, is passing into something of a far worse nature. For the sake of euphemism, however, and that we may not run the risk of making any great mistakes, we will still continue to call this failure to return books to the library "carelessness," and permit those who may read this to give to the word as broad a meaning as they may see fit from the dictations of their own consciences. Carelessness, when it results in inconvenience to others, is in itself an offence of no slight magnitude; but when the carelessness, becomes intentional carelessness, then the offence...
...SHIPPEN, Sec'y.SHAKSPERE CLUB. - The Club will meet as usual at 7.30 this evening. Scenes 1 and 2, Act II, will be read. Several members of the club have volunteered to speak at this meeting...