Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make the reciter fancy that something is remembered which has really been suggested. He ought to note any explanations offered by reciters, and to record those bits of narrative with which they may eke out an imperfect remembrance of the verse. The copy that has been taken should be read carefully to the reciter, to secure correctness, and it may happen, in this process, that something will recur to recollection which has been forgotten before...
...Society for Political Education, of which the central branch is in New York, is increasing its sphere of work and bids fair to be successful. Any one can become an active member by paying fifty cents a year, and by promising to read certain books. Harvard students who desire membership can obtain full information from the officers of the Finance Club...
...further travel, I to return to America and begin my life at the University. Just before we shook hands for the last time he gave me a sealed package of papers, with the injunction that, should I ever hear of his death, I might open the package and read its contents. Should I see fit, I might also print them. I put the parcel away and thought little more of it, until, about a month ago, I was saddened to see by the morning papers that he had died at Singapore, in making the tour of the world. I then...
THIS famous society was formed a year since, at the suggestion of several gentlemen prominent in science and literature. Its object is the discussion of the world in general and the universe in particular. At these meetings from time to time many valuable papers have been read, and possibly on some future occasion they may be perpetrated in print. But it is with the opening meeting of this famous society that we are at present concerned...
...Legislature, now in session in the Capitol," he said, pointing across the street. "The House sits in Memorial, and the Senate in Sanders. The traditional name of the Legislature is 'The Harvard Union.' A very interesting paper was read last night before the Historical Society on the origin of this title...