Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Child will read Chaucer's Knights Tale this evening at Sever...
...opportunity of a severe critique upon Mr. Henry Norman's "Account of the Harvard Greek Play" to shake his ambrosial locks in doubting comment on the results of said play for Harvard and the cause of Greek studies generally. It says: "College presidents will shake their heads when they read that for five months there were three or four rehearsals a week, and that for six weeks preceding the performance there was a rehearsal every day, to say nothing of the vast drain on the time and energies of the professional managers. A smaller college than Harvard would simply...
...However, it is not difficult to account for McCullough's especial success in this play. He is greatly aided by his appearance, for his features are the clear cut ones of the Roman, while the character of the play is such that the actor can understand his lines and read them with intelligence and spirit, something he is wholly incapable of doing with Shakespearian drama...
...sufficiently advertised on the college bulletin boards, that Mr. J. G. Croswell was to read from "Theocritus" last Wednesday evening, in Sever Hall. Although Mr. Croswell's reading was unusually interesting, only twenty-five persons cared enough about hearing it to take the trouble to walk to Sever. Many fine lectures of late have been slighted in this manner. If the students would think of the vast amount of trouble that lecturers often put themselves to, so that they may appear before a Harvard audience, and the disappointment that they must feel at seeing evidence of so small an appreciation...
...Minimum Section may read, during the week, as far as the subject of "Specific Gravity...