Word: reads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...much for the practical bearing of your editorial. If you will now re-read your last paragraph, remembering that some thirty or forty of your college mates are engaged in the service of which you there speak, you will see what I mean by undesirable rudeness. You have said...
...Kendrick read a cable dispatch setting forth the refusal of the University athletes of Great Britain to engage in an athletic contest, and it was resolved that the refusal was most unfortunate...
...number opens with "Francis Parkman's Autobiography," which was read at a special meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held to commemorate the death of the historian, but which has not before been published. This remarkable autobiography was the result, so the author tells us, of a desire to make known the extreme difficulties, which reduced to small proportions, what might have been a good measure of achievement. After reading the story we are amazed at the actual amount of work the man accomplished under difficulties almost insurmountable, and can only faintly realize what he might have succeeded in doing...
...read that early in life a love of work became a ruling passion with him, and rest appeared to him to be intolerable. He made history his special study, and to it he devoted his whole heart. His mind was constantly turning towards remote objects of re-search and straining to attain them...
...result of this close and long continued application to study was a weakness of his eyes, that increased with alarming rapidity until he was almost blind. He was unable to read for more than five minutes at a time, and could not bear the sunlight. Against this adverse fortune, when most men would have given up effort, Francis Parkman struggled the greater part of his life. The story of his struggles, and of his life, crippled by sickness, is full of pathos, and a heroism that is inspiring...