Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each meeting a lecture was read by some one previously appointed, upon a subject of his own choosing. After this came an intermission of five minutes, and then followed debate upon the question chosen at the last meeting. The first question discussed by the society was, "Are our republican institutions destined to be permanent?" There were two speakers in the affirmative and seven in the negative, among them Webster...
Baldwin, '85, acted as chorister, and many choruses and solos were sung. Mr. Fiske, the auditor, in his response read a poem in which he contrasted the old Thayer Club with the present Dining Association. After an evening well spent discussing the delicacies of the banquet, and listening to the many toasts and songs, the directors adjourned sine die, with twenty-seven cheers...
...first visit to the Conservatory was made quite recently on the occasion of an "Informal Reception, Art School and Loan Exhibition of Paint tings," as the invitation read. Perhaps I had to fish for my invitation; but then fishing is not always an unpleasant sport. I caught a good sized fish; and with it came up such snags and grasses as a couple of sweet-scented cards, and trailing along after them a note. Of course I threw none of this booty back into the water...
GREEK READINGS.Professor Goodwin will read the last half of the "Clouds of Aristophanes" on Wednesday evening, May 20, in Sever...
...that gives a preference for any one belief in religion and enforces such a belief on its members, must be narrow and must exert a bad influence over all who come under its sway." This has been said more than once by people who pride themselves on being well read and posted on educational subjects. It is extremely difficult to trace to its source any such report, and yet there must be some foundation for such positive statements. Undoubtedly the tendency of Harvard was Unitarian in the beginning of the century, and up to the last few years many...