Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their venerable items, has been sheer nonsense; and nonsense that is not in the least amusing or laughable either, but nonsense of the most painful and tiresome kind. If it cost the writers one half the pains to write all of the stuff that it costs their readers to read it - why, I think they have our sincerest sympathy and commiseration in their woes. I call it rubbish and rot, and I claim that I am not too severe in doing so. Doleful writing makes doleful reading, and the Crimson and Advocate are reponsible for many dolorous pangs among their...
...challenge from Yale to play at Providence, March 22, and at New Haven the following Friday. There is much complaint at Brown because of the lack of facilities for athletic training there and the consequent languishing interest in college sports. The Brown correspondent of the Advertiser says : "Students read with feelings of envy the accounts of the exercises at the Hemenway Gymnasium, and hope the time may come when some generous alumnus will remember the wants of Brown in this particular...
...meeting of the Harvard Natural History Society, to be held Tuesday evening, March 20th, at 7.30 P. M., Mr. W. M. Davis will read a communication on "Local Signal Service...
Last Friday evening Professor Churchill of Andover read before the college and invited friends. The entertainment was given in honor of the birthday of the founder of the college, and took the place of the supper, which in former years it has been customary to give to the college...
...contestants for the first bout of the Middle-weight Sparring, Page, '83, and Cobb, '84, made their appearance at nine minutes past three. Mr. Wendell read the rules governing the match, and time was called. A large number of effective blows were exchanged and the men seemed to be evenly matched. Page won the first bout. In the second bout, between Biddle, '84, and Lee, '83, considerable science was shown by both men, and a good deal of hard hitting was indulged in. In consequence of a disagreement among the judges, in regard to the winner of this bout...