Word: reads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...learn about great things, Mr. Copeland said, was to read the words of great men. With the exception of the first rank of our great leaders, no one could be found who surpassed General Sherman. His letters to his mother, which extend over the remarkable period of half a century, were the word of a great man telling of great things. From them we might get most truthful and vivid pictures of the Civil...
...Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen was then taken up by Mr. Copeland. Her books, he said, had been read with delight by the greatest men both of England and America. All through her works one feels that it is of real life he is reading. But "Pride and Prejudice," he thought, was not the best of her books, of which the most delightful perhaps were her latest works: "Mansfield Park," "Emma," "Persuasion." One goes to Jane Austen for humor, and not for pathos. Her novels are no more real than Miss Wilkens's "Pembroke," which is an extraordinary work...
...official classification of tennis players for 1894, J. B. Read '95, G. L. Wrenn, Jr., '96, and A. Codman, Jr., '96, are put Class 8 with a handicap of 15.1. R. D. Wrenn '95, is alone in Class 1, owing...
Shakespeare Club.The Shakespeare Club met last night in 50 Weld with about twelve members present. The reading of "Hamlet" was finished in preparation for a paper which Professor de Sumichrast expects to read at the next meeting of the club on "The First French Hamlet...
...Shakespeare Club will meet at 7.30 p. m., Thursday, January 3, at 50 Weld-Selections from Hamlet will be read...