Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Section I in sophomore rhetoric will recite October 4th. Sections II, III, and IV, October 5th. It is requested that pages 249 to 263 in Hill's Rhetoric be carefully read. Thirty five men have passed the examinations for admission to the freshman class, just finished...
...occasional speakers to address the society, the society itself should do active work. It should hold at least bi-weekly meetings for the discussion of temperance questions which must be argued before the people long and well are we can claim a victory. At these meetings papers should be read and discussed, and in a great variety of ways could the time be profitably employed for those of us who in after life expect to war against the curse of strong drink. I am aware that a temperance organization in this university receives little enough encouragement from either the students...
...published History of the United States; and in the "American Statesman Series" on Henry Clay, by Carl Schurz and on Patrick Henry, by Prof. Moses Coit Tyler. The edition de luxe of Prof. Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads is also promised soon. "Yankee Doodle," the Poem recently read before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa, by Robert Grant, and Charles Francis Adams, "College Fetich" have already appeared in pamphlet form...
...July Century will print several hitherto unpublished letters of Emerson, written not long after he left college. In one he expresses the opinion that Greek authors should be read in the original, which he afterwards saw fit to change...
...Century will appear several letters written by Emerson soon after he left Harvard. In one of these letters he enthusiastically praises Walter Scott, comparing him to Shakespeare. In another he expresses an opinion which he thoroughly disowned in later life - this opinion being that the Greek authors should be read only in the original...