Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seem wholly needless to call attention to the fact that all are interested in the use of the bulletin boards, and that it is therefore undoubtedly desirable that notices should be allowed to remain where they can be easily read, so long as they are valid; but notices of importance have repeatedly been covered, of late, before the date of the occasion for which they were posted, by other notices of subsequent date. This obviously should not be. Nor, on the other hand, should notices be allowed to remain on the boards after losing validity, as is still often done...
Concerning the effect of the system upon the instructor, there can be no question. Dr. A. Potter, in his able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought...
...from a member of the Christian Brethren). Read your Bible, you heathen...