Word: reads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to the lack of time but ten men were chosen to compete. A. Codman '96 won first place and will be the representative in the singles. J. B. Read '95 and A. S. Pier '95 hold second and third places respectively and J. H. Chase '95 and G. L. Wrenn, Jr., '96 will play this morning for fourth place. Two of these last four men will go to New Haven to play in the doubles...
more imbued with the spirit of antiquity than Swinburne with all his Greek. And why? Because he read, not to become Greek, but drawn by a passion for the same ideal beauty that made the Greeks themselves Greek. The advice of Cato, cum bonis ambula, holds as good of books as of men. If the mind, like the dyer's hand, becomes insensibly subdued to what it works in, so also may it steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against...
...reading such books as chiefly deserve to be read in any foreign language, it is wise to translate consciously and in words as we read. There is no such help to a fuller mastery of our vernacular. It compels us to such a choosing and testing, to such a nice discrimination of sound, propriety, position, and shade of meaning, that we now first learn the secret of the words we have been using or misusing all our lives, and are gradually made aware that to set forth even the plainest matter, as it should be set forth, is not only...
...Read and Sons...
...consult Lee L. Powers, 3 Boylston street, Read's Block, and he will give you ideas about your decorations for your Class Day spread. He supplies camp chairs, tables and anything you may need for a successful spread...