Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there appears, now and then, a little pedantry and almost "Western" heaviness, did not the discriminating editors of the Register show their good intentions and appreciation of the fit by adopting as their motto the classic phrase from Byron, "I won't philosophize and I will be read?" And yet, we take it, still in a measure we have inherited something of the style and frequent felicity of expression possessed by these predecessors of ours, and the traditional literary bent of Harvard is by no means lost today. The Register of 1827 lived only two years (striking coincidence with...
...House of Lords, London, yesterday, a bill introduced by the Earl of Redesdale, excluding atheists from both houses of Parliament, was read for the first time...
Another contributor says, "I send you a few jokes which I hope will prove acceptable." They did. The janitor's wife read them and never came near us again...
There was more, but it was not read. Marked "rejected, as we can not countenance immorality at Harvard," and besides, '85 has become since then ass-thetic...
When all the board had heard this there was a moment of silence, interrupted by our special telegram operator breaking into a laugh over an ambitious looking piece of brown paper he had picked up. He began to read...