Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...COPELAND, '82, read a very entertaining paper on Horace Walpole in English 7, last Wednesday. Messrs. M. St. C. Wright, '81, and W. C. Lane, '81, had previously given talks upon the minor poets of the "transition period...
...your reputation) will be sure to twist your words into meanings which are equally new and acceptable to you. Above all, keep trying. There's nothing like it. Remember how Jacob wrestled with the angel. Do you in like manner wrestle with bon mots. Affect to read strange and uncommon books. Be unusual in your tastes. Be any thing rather than nothing. You must keep prominently before people's eyes at any cost; for so long as you are notorious there is some hope of your becoming famous. Above all, keep trying. You will sometimes feel like relaxing...
...more of these societies, and very few find it possible to attend all the meetings, to which as members they should go. If all the societies of learning can be induced to have meetings but once a month, the cry of too many societies will die out; the papers read and the questions discussed can be done much better; the attendance will undoubtedly be larger, and the whole will have more backbone and spirit. It can hardly be denied that they all need, or, at least, could stand, a great deal of improvement, and this we think could be done...
...Essay read before the Quizzical Club...
EVER since I can remember, it has been the greatest desire of my life to visit and converse with the great authors whose works I have read with so much pleasure. That wish has fortunately been gratified in many instances; and I think I may truthfully say that no man living is more intimately acquainted with the doings and sayings of the famous literary people of the age than I am. And since the Quizzical Club has kindly invited me to speak to them to-night on the subject of Tennyson, having ascertained that the great poet...