Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...REED, '81, read in Hist. 6 a well-written and studied thesis on the campaigns of Charles the Bold against the Swiss...
...examinations for Second-Year Honors in Classics will take place May 8 and 10. The subjects will be the translation of the specified portions of Greek and Latin authors supposed to have been read by the candidates, and the translation of Greek and Latin at sight. The examinations in Greek and Latin composition will be postponed until the end of the term, and will then take the place of final examinations in Greek 4 and Latin 3, counting both for honors and for the year's mark in those courses...
...BRIGGS read the twenty-second book of the Iliad, Wednesday evening, in Harvard Hall...
...they all go on to smile upon those who have smiled on them, or to pour floods of weak sarcasm-and-water on the head of the Niagara Index. In spite of the general weak-mindedness of exchange editors, - a misfortume which is probably the result of having to read the college papers once in two weeks, - "collegiate journalism" has improved a great deal in the last two or three years. A few papers are silly, a good many are heavy, pretentious, or stupid, but there are only one or two left absurd enough to find subjects for laughter...
...knew I could n't, so I replied nothing, and she went on. "S'pose you can read French, or think you can. I like that too. Got a French book here that's jest lovely." "Let me see it," said I, hopefully. It was the "Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau"! I had had enough; I said I had an engagement to dinner, and left, while she called after me, "Come round again some afternoon, - I'm' most always here fine days, - and we might have a row on the lake." I accepted the invitation" with pleasure," and departed from...