Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard HERALD speaks of "one instructor in college" who makes it a public boast that he reads no newspapers. That would be shameful if it were a fact, but I question it. No man who can read, and is in the possession of his senses, could so shut himself out of the world, unless he went off and lived as a hermit beyond the boundaries of civilization. The instructor may say, and possibly even think, that he does not read the newspapers, but you could corner him on cross-examination. It is a silly boast, and especially silly when coming...
...ladies visited the college, inspecting the library and gymnasium and lunching at 2 P. M. at Memorial Hall. At 3.30 the party adjourned to Boylston where they examined the mineralogical cabinet, and at 4 assembled in 9 Boylston, where a paper on the "Relative Strength of American Woods" was read by Prof. Sharples, and an experiment was performed by Prof. J. P. Cooke with the aid of magic lantern and electric light, showing the critical point of carbonic acid...
There was a comparatively small attendance at the annual meeting of the Harvard Co-operative Society in Boylston last evening, many men being drawn away by the debate of the Harvard Union on "Co-education." The reports of the treasurer and secretary were read and adopted. The amendments to the articles, made by the board, specified in the secretary's report, were then adopted. The elections made by the board during the year to fill vacancies were ratified. Prof. J. W. White was elected president of the society for the ensuing year. T. M. Osborne, '84, treasurer...
...third change was in Article VIII., in regard to membership. It was voted by the board "That the words 'persons not members of the society' be changed so as to read 'persons connected with the university, but not members of the society...
...think it would be well to read here Article XIII. of the constitution, which is in itself explanatory...