Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Much well-grounded complaint is heard in regard to the amount of work required in History 13. This course, in previous years, has been noted as unduly hard and exacting. It has required more hours of work than the average course, to do the required reading, not to mention the general outside work which all ambitious students wish to do. The changes inaugurated for this year have increased the demands formerly made on the student. To do the minimum amount of reading on the average lecture and make notes of the matter read, requires from two to three hours...
...fact that a member of '86 has prepared a paper on the doctrine of laisser faire, at the request of the Honorable James Bryce, M. P. to be read before the English House of Lords, is a gratifying compliment to our department of Political Economy. It marks a recognition of Harvard's position in this new science. It also points out emphatically the new field which Harvard and other colleges are making attractive to young men. Many political questions must arise for decision in the next few decades. The journalists and the politicians who have had the advantages...
...ever read the grand old epics of the ancients, the incomparable blank verse of Shakespeare, the sweet lyrics of Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, and a hundred others, and not felt himself elevated and benefitted in mind and soul by so allowing his thoughts to mingle with theirs? But can any one fully, appreciate these productions who has never studied or tried to express himself in verse, any more than a country-bred swain can comprehend the rich harmony of a Thomas concert? WE say not, and to remedy this ignorance of rhyme and this derogative opinion of it, we would propose...
...appeared in your issue of Wednesday. He speaks of cranks in college in the most "grandiloquent" and patronizing way, and insinuates that your correspondent belongs in the list. He not only accuses him of being a crank, but declares that he is untruthful and malignant. If the "Graduate" would read the accounts of the so-called sophomore-freshman rush which appeared in some of the Boston papers, I think that even he could not deny that a "Battle at Cambridge," followed by double leads, was more than "graphic description." This report was copied all over the country. In the papers...
There will be a meeting of the Shakspere Club this evening, at 7.30, in Holden Chapel. Scenes 1, 3, 5 and 7 of Act I will be read...