Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Important meeting of Delta Upsilon this evening at 59 Matthews. A paper on the American Revolution will be read by Mr. J. S. Haver, Esq., of Somerville...
...seniors are reading Milton's Areopogitica." This is interesting, and needs no comment. "Rescued from a watery grave! For particulars ask Smith." Here is something that plays vividly on the imagination. And too it imparts genealogical information. We learn with interest that a branch of the Smith family has been bold enough to go west and inflict its bane on western printers of college catalogues, who find the capital s's in their fonts far below the demand. "Arnold's father spent Sunday with him." Our sympathy for Arnold has no bounds. "Miss Daisy Lovejoy climbed the hill Saturday...
...similar nature, for example, "MacPherson has a girl." "Adams called on Miss Harbrook Tuesday evening and was late in getting home." "Bronson spent last Sunday in Marshville. Bronson is spending too many Sundays in Marshville." "Hunter has a girl," etc., etc. All these items are refreshing. We read them, throw aside the western journals, lie back in our armchairs and think until we fall asleep. Then we dream...
...Harvard readers; it is the means by which the achievements of the college at large and of its individual members are recorded. Whoever would know what has been accomplished by any Harvard undergraduate, or by any Harvard organization, has but to look over the Index, and there read the inevitable record. Certain pages and certain positions on the pages are significant indices of a college man's career, and often stand for several paragraphs of biography. Like all books of names, records, general data, etc., the Index has to be read more for what it suggests, than for what...
...next meeting of the Conference Committee will be held next Wednesday, in Sever 3. At this meeting the report of the committee on the marking system will be read, containing the information received from twenty out of the twenty-five colleges which have been interrogated in regard...