Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conversed most fluently and delightfully in my own tongue during the whole of our long ride. Just before arriving he handed me his card, and said that he should call on me the next day and see if there was any thing he could do for me. His card read thus: Dr. De Beauville, Practising Physician, 14 Rue Berry...
...meeting of the directors of the Dining Association, held last Wednesday, the auditor's report was read and referred to a committee, consisting of Messrs. Fuller, Lilienthal, and Elting. A table was established for late breakfast, for which those who come after 9 o'clock will be charged extra. Below are some of the items of the auditor's report...
...last two readings in Mr. Riddle's course at Lyceum Hall will be given on the 9th and on the 16th of November. At the first, besides selections from "Romeo and Juliet," he will read "Tot Plummer's First Assembly," a very amusing account, by the author of the "Frivolous Girl," of the experiences of a Sophomore at his first Harvard Assembly. At the second, he will read selections from "Macbeth," and "The Sewing School for Scandal," written by one of the authors of "Rollo...
...point by complaining of this action with regard to Greek 3, on the ground that this course is an easy one, in which the whole object desired is attained in one year. The instructor in Greek 3, however, especially encouraged men to take the course again, and so finish reading Herodotus. The course has been shown to be perhaps the most profitable Greek course for the majority of men, - those who wish to attain facility in reading Greek rather than to master technicalities which they must soon forget, unless they expect to teach. Now the Echo's assumption, that this...
...another column we publish a letter which has reference to the recent action of the Faculty in depriving a considerable number of men of the privilege of repeating English 2. The fact that entirely different plays of Shakspeare are read would seem to make it as independent a course as the second year of Greek 8 or 9 ; but the claims of the English language and literature are comparatively slight in the eyes of certain instructors. We do not think that our correspondent puts the case too strongly. The fact that the list of electives were handed in four months...