Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evening a verse of the New Testament from the English or Latin translation into Greek. Before 1728, however, this system was abolished, and a service something like the present adopted. It differed principally in its length. The President always expounded the chapter from the testament which was read. On Sunday, probably for variety, this exposition was omitted, and in the evening one of the students repeated from memory the sermons he had heard during the day, a practice no doubt pleasing to its victim, and his fellow sufferers. The President was required to officiate, and in his absence...
...objects for which the Harvard Shakspere Club, under the auspices of which the lecture was given, was founded. As Mr. Irving stepped to the desk, he was greeted with round upon round of applause, to which he bowed his acknowledgments, and then began his lecture, which he read from notes...
...work of our Literary Supplement would be done much more thoroughly and successfully by a monthly literary magazine, like the Yale Lit and the Nassan Lit. In one way, these persons are quite right. The essays would be presented in a more attractive, permanent form, the proof could be read more carefully, and the printing could be of a better quality of work than we can afford to pay for in a supplement that we give to our subscribers. There is, however, a very strong argument in favor of our Supplement. Our paper is a newspaper, and is read...
...married an Irish lady, for the sole reason, so far as I can discover, that she was willing to marry him; this was so unusual a chance that he appears to have embraced it eagerly. His marriage, however, did not radically change him, and we are not surprised to read, a year after, in a brief letter written on a journey, that: "There is a Miss Silverton in the fly with me, an amiable creature who has been in France. I can unite little fondnessess with conjugal love." Boswell must have been a unique sort of travelling companion...
Prof. J. W. White has told his sections in Greek V that the course has not been a success in regard to reading Greek at sight, as the plays are much too hard for the students; and he has proposed to read Herodotus for the test of the year. The choice of either continuing the Greek plays, or of reading Herodotus has been left entirely to the students in the course, and will be decided by them next week...