Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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THERE is little that is better in college literature than the "De Temporibus et Moribus " department of the Vassar Miscellany. It is a compound of Harper's Easy-Chair and the Atlantic's Contributors' Club. Reading its graceful articles is the next best thing to talking with the editors themselves upon the subjects in which they are most interested. The Miscellany's exchange notes are what exchange notes should be, both brilliant and just. The Yale Lit., too, excels in its "Portfolio." It is a very gentlemanly paper, with an easy air that is rather humorous than witty. Its dress...
...EDGAR FAWCETT will read the Phi Beta Kappa poem next summer...
AMONG the courses of Evening Readings given in the various departments of the University, one of the most popular is Professor Child's course of Readings from Shakspere. Professor Child, however, confines himself almost wholly to explanations of the text, doing little to bring out the individuality of Shakspere's characters. As a supplement to his valuable instruction, could not Mr. Riddle be induced to read one or more of these plays in Sanders Theatre, with a view to giving us a clear understanding of each character...
Should Mr. Riddle be willing to read he would gratify many of the students who have expressed a strong wish to hear him and he would be sure of a large and appreciative audience...
...very selfish way of looking at the matter for a man to consider only the amount of future benefit he expects to receive out of it himself, and to determine his subscription by the amount of food that he expects to eat and printing that he expects to read. Every man should contribute with a view to the good of the whole class, as well as his individual benefit; and it is not too much to say that '80 should set a good example to the less generous under-classes in College by rolling up a large fund...