Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Dyer will continue his reading of the "Apology of Plato" at 7.30 tonight in Sever 11, after which Prof. Allen will read "The Crito...
...years ago it was not uncommon to hear a senior remark: "Indeed, I never thought of going into the library in my freshman year." Today the toiling freshman not infrequently sighs: "Why are we expected to read half of the books in the library?" From the ceaseless throng that come and go the library may properly be termed the university workshop...
Probably the one place in college that impresses the visitor with the fact that the student does study and think and read is the library. And the department of the library of which this is especially true is the "Notes and Queries" system. There the particular study or theme in which each student is most interested is reflected in the questions written on the card. Rarely one of these questions is found that betrays any considerable ignorance in common things, but the following perhaps is an example of this class. One man wants to know "when and where originated...
...Thus are we slandered," says the Roxbury Advocate : " 'There are two boating associations here,' wrote a Japanese student home, 'called Yale and Harvard. When it rains, the members read books.' No well-informed person needs to be reminded that students have more profitable methods of utilizing rainy days than in devoting them to study...
...rich metaphors of Tom Moore are nowhere in comparison with this brilliant effusion of verbal pyrotechnics. Think, for instance, of a "top gallery, separated from the world below by a light cloud of blue muslin, from whence floated the music of Wheeler and Wilson's" - sewing machine, we read it first, but it turned out to be a band, - presumably a full brass band. The "elite" and "chaperones," we are told, were all present, and, almost in the same breath, are mentioned the hackmen, florists, and opera-house and hotel managers. These stood outside the gate and "rubbed their hands...