Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cafe on Sunday while he was out on leave no notice would be taken of the fact, nor would a professor or usher think of cross-questioning him on his return from the holidays as to what he had been doing, what books or newspapers he had read. This curious mixture of subjection and license might have worked well if French boys had the same taste for out-door games as the English, and could be trusted to make a healthy use of their freedom; but political accidents have combined in an odd way to check all athletic tendencies among...
Professor Cook's advanced sections in Freshman German will be examined on all that they have read since Christmas, except the reader...
...Narragansett Hotel Wednesday evening, Hon. C. B. Farnsworth in the chair, in the absence of President Brinley, of Newport. Pleasant addresses were made by President Eliot, President Robinson of Brown, Dr. Parsons, Rev. Dr. Stockbridge and Amos Perry, Esq. The company separated at a late hour. A poem was read from Rev. Dr. Charles T. Brooks of Newport...
President Eliot in a recent lecture expresses the opinion that it would be a great improvement in the relation between minister and congregation, "if the minister were frankly allowed sometimes to comment upon a fresh book instead of preaching a sermon, sometimes to read other men's sermons instead of his own, and, in general, to direct his hearers to good reading, and bring them to know something of the minds and works of the leaders of the race, living and dead...
...then takes up the question of the value of the classics as a prescribed subject in a college training and asks : "What good is done the student by insisting that he shall do these small amounts of Latin and Greek? Is the mental discipline resulting from the reading of three or four hundred pages of easy Greek text, so very valuable as to be indispensable, so that no one should be allowed to take a bachelor's degree without it? Is the difference in point of sound education so great between one who has, and one who has not read...