Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...SMITH, '80 read his prize dissertation on Garribaldi, Wednesday, March 31. J. Quincy read prize dissertation on Lucretius, Thursday, April 1. Other dissertations will be read after the recess...
...good fortune to know one personally. As I walked along absorbed in speculations upon the probable characteristics of these maiden collegians, I was startled by a slight cough, and upon looking up I found myself in the immediate presence of a very young and pretty girl, who was sitting reading, or pretending to read, at the foot of a large maple-tree whose branches overhung the water. Being a Boston man, my first impulse was to beg pardon for my unintentional intrusion, and beat a hasty retreat; but, upon perceiving my intention, the maiden, somewhat to my surprise, remarked, with...
When I recovered from my astonishment at her display of ichthyological knowledge, I asked to see her book, at the same time remarking, "This is just the time and spot that one would choose to read a good novel. Are you fond of novels? But I suppose they are forbidden in the college." " Nothin's forbidden, 'cept young men," replied she; "and I don't take much stock in novels, anyhow. There ain't enough meat to 'em, - lot of girls and men that don't know anything, nor can't talk about anything 'cept each other and love...
...looked at the book she had given me, to change the conversation. Ye nymphs! It was "Plutarch's Lives" in the original Greek! She saw my astonishment, and said triumphantly, "Guess you must 'a' thought girls could n't read Greek. Oh, you college boys is awful silly! Why, I like that ever so much better than novels; but I don't believe you could read...
...President now said that as the Dig was prevented from attending on account of study, he would read the Dig's coat of arms for him. "Mr. President, I would have on my shield a representation of Commencement Day, and I should be delivering the best speech given for years; on one side, supporting the shield, would be a degree, summa cum laude; on the other, the President handing me a tutorship in Greek; for a motto, 'Conquer the Greek particle...