Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia library the electric lights can be used at any time of day if any corner is too dark to read in without...
...overburdened, as he made his customary rounds, with about a thousand extra missives, innocent looking enough in themselves, clad as they were in small and modest looking envelopes. But a closer inspection of the outside showed the ominous words, "Return to Allen Danforth," in the corner, and upperclassmen who read this legend knew well enough what was inside. Now it happened that we were sitting in the room of a prominent '85 man when this important official document fell through his letter-slip, and dropped unpretentiously to the floor. To us the disjointed comments he made while perusing the contents...
Professor John Williams White's section in Greek 5 has now begun to read the "Pax" of Aristophanes...
...CRIMSON is becoming so popular that it is read with interest by a number of young ladies in Boston...
...century with the study of Roman law. But it was not until two centuries later that Petrarch revived the study of the Latin classics. The promised land, however, of Greek antiquity he was only permitted to see from Pisgah. He could only weep over the Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe was Boccaccio, and he was never more than a student. But at the close of the fourteenth century a really competent teacher of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras, found his way to Italy, and then the work began in earnest. The first half...