Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Descent into Hades, from Virgil's AEneid, Book VI, will be read by Mr. Parker this evening in Sever...
...eager conversation on Robert Browning's poems, or Froude's "History," or some quaint old treasure long "out of print," the generous impulse prompts an offer of the volume discussed, It may be the listener suggests that he would like to know more on the subject. "You ought to read such and such passages," says the happy owner, and the borrower carries the book home, and forthwith it mingles with his own and is merged and lost. Such a thing even as the loan of a borrowed book is not unusual, though it ought to be regarded as a social...
...Lutz will read Wieland's Oberon for advanced students this evening in Sever 6, at 7.30. The reading will consist of a short synopsis of books one and two in German, and a continuation of books three and four...
...library. The instructors are every year requiring more library work; every year students learn at an earlier period of their college course how to make use of the library, and to accept the great advantages it offers. Under such circumstances we cannot but feel very envious when we read that the library of Columbia College is to be open evenings and lighted by electricity. When we consider that the great bulk of the work here is done in the evening, and that any influence tending to keep men from spending their afternoons in open air exercise during the spring...
Professor W. W. Goodwin will read a paper on "The American School for Classical Studies" before the New England Woman's Club this afternoon at half-past three o'clock...