Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor C. S. Sargent, of Harvard College, read a paper on "Forest Fires" at the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture at Northampton Thursday...
...himself on record as approving Yale's play and disapproving Harvard's universal condemnation of it on the field the day of the game. The Boston paper have indeed explained what the true ideas of this institution are, if the News will but take the trouble to read them...
...books. There are besides two recitation rooms, which Mr. Howells might call 'sincerely bare,' but which are amply comfortable for their purposes. In the sunny parlor, with its home-like belongings, had gathered Professor Hill's Rhetoric class. A half dozen young ladies sat about informally while the professor read his lecture. He had just delivered the same lecture to the sophomore class in the college, and adapted it to his present audience by means of frequent parentheses. It was somewhat after this fashion: - 'Unless a man acquires a taste for reading before he goes into business (or a woman...
...matter of great regret that so few men in college take advantage of the opportunity for learning to read music offered by the classes just forming under the charge of Mr. Carey. We feel sure that there are many men with fair or even excellent voices, which they never make use of, merely for the reason that they have never had the opportunity nor taken the trouble to learn to read music. Men are apt to suppose that because they are not exquisite first tenors, or stentorian bassos, they can never gain any pleasure or profit from a knowledge...
...freshmen will have a three-hour examination in Latin before Christmas. It will include the translation of a sight passage and also a passage from that which has been read in class; also grammatical questions on that portion of Roman History touched upon by Livy...