Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard University last June, by William Henry Rawle, M.A., L.L.D. The author is a man of large experience in legal circles. He takes for his subject, "The Case of the Educated Un-employed," It is impossible to give here any of his ideas. But the address is worth reading to any man who feels, in trying to choose his profession, as if he were about to embark on an unknown sea. The language is simple. The ideas are easy of comprehension. If they could be read and digested by all college men, the next generation will find fewer educated...
...gratifying to us, as we glance over our exchanges, to read in almost every one that "Harvard has the largest college library in the United States." The statement is a very simple one, and is made with but few words, but it certainly has a good deal of meaning. It is also gratifying to us to turn to the reports of the library for different years and find how largely the library is used by college men and how each year has shown an extension of this use. We hardly need to expatiate on the value of a library...
...them is likely to become great, or perhaps even to be permanently a second-rate favorite. Matthew Arnold for example, or Edmund Gosse in the younger generation, and all of them, seem to have little of the poet's inspiration though much of the poet's art; and we read them only to be gratified by a certain titillation of the senses rather than to have our sympathies roused at the discovery that their souls and sufferings are at all like our own. And if we investigate general tendencies instead of individual promise, we fail to find any near prospect...
...obliged to peruse his "unabridged" on the slightest occasion, and who cannot write half a page without looking up a dozen words, may read the following with every feeling of satisfaction and pleasure. A recent essay on the subject of spelling and reading English gives voice to some rather remarkable opinions, a consideration of which it was thought would be interesting, especially to the class of men spoken of above...
...essay goes on to say, that the boy who lays aside his reasoning powers, and takes without question the dictum of his teacher, is the one who learns to read and spell more readily. There is a great strain upon the powers of memorizing at the expense of everything else. Several letters stand for one sound and vice versa. There are many silent letters and syllables, and altogether the English language is the worst constructed of any now in existence, except, perhaps, that of the heathen Chinee. An Italian school-boy learns to read Italian in a little over nine...