Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from recitations to examinations, and his only desire is to get through the period, regardless whether he does well or not. In many of the courses here, the lectures and recitations merely serve to point out to a man the best authorities on the subject he is studying. To read all these authorities takes all a man's time. In some courses it is almost impossible for a man to do justice to the subject, on account of lack of time. And yet, when the examinations are over, he is expected to be prepared at once on all these books...
Younger sister - "Miss Jones told us today in school that young people who read Byron lose all their freshness. Have we a copy in the house, Mary?" Mary (doubtfully) - "Yes, Clara; why?" Clara - "I want to read some to Tom before he goes back to college." [Chaff...
...instrument in his room. On being answered in the negative the afore-mentioned tenant became still more excited and told a long story about hearing some one telegraphing, apparently inside the wall. He had noticed it several times, and, being somewhat of an operator, had even made out to read parts of the message, but could make no sense of them, as they were evidently in cypher. Consequently he was beginning to have visions of infernal machines and was scraping together in his memory the various Irish agitators of whom he had expressed an unfavorable opinion, for the purpose...
...long-busted student received and opened a letter from his paterfamilias. The first words which he read: "In-closed you will find" - made him set up a hilarious cry. But his jaw dropped as he read the remainder of the sentence as follows: "a plan of our new home." Poor boy, he had a very narrow escape from being an inmate of a lunatic asylum...
...have Gov. Butler's own assurance for it that he is perfectly competent to read and translate the Latin degree of doctor of laws given by Harvard, a thing which few other men in the country are able to do. This certainly implies a vast amount of learning in his excellency, and it was, perhaps, in consideration of this that Williams College some years ago dubbed him LL. D. The governor does not appear to be so strong, however, in English literature as he is in Latin. Friday last, in the course of a speech, he referred to Longfellow...