Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first one of the theses in N. H. 2 was read yesterday morning...
...readily appreciate the liberties allowed us, in regard to attendance at recitations, when we read that at Cornell "only two cuts in drill may be made up this term. All cuts in excess of two will count against the standing at the end of the term...
There is a curious article on "College Life" in the volume. Its thesis is this: "Our situation here is utterly unnatural; necessarily so, perhaps, but that it is so - that four or five hundred youth, collected from their homes, far and near, and housed together for four years, to read books and forget the world, are in a forced and unnatural state, is obvious." A thought that might seem startling, if one did not reflect that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer...
...subjects of interest to students and graduates, is very observable. The New York Times and the Evening Post and the Boston Advertiser are familiar examples of this latter tendency. The regular weekly "College Chronicle" of the New York World is a department of that paper well known and much read by college men, though conducted, one must acknowledge at times, with more industry than true journalistic insight. The Philadelphia News is another paper that has a weekly department of college notes. The Boston papers of late years, it is well known, have been devoting much attention to college news...
...section in Greek 2 will not take up the Acharniaus of Aristophanes as intended. They will read instead the Clyclops of Euripides...