Word: reads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...voluntary course in English Literature and the Art of Reading Aloud will be given by Mr. Copeland during the second half-year. A great variety of authors, ranging chronologically from Shakespeare to Mr. Rudyard Kipling, will be discussed and read from; and novels and novels and plays - with some account of famous modern performances - will make a large proportion of the course. Meetings are to be held once a week; and the hour will be divided between reading aloud. and informal speaking by the instructor. Only good readers will be allowed to read, but good listeners will be thought...
...calendar for the next week appears the announcement of a new course in Literature and Reading to be conducted by Mr. Copeland during the second half year. The course is entirely voluntary and as the meetings come but once a week, they will draw but slightly on the time of those who may wish to take advantage of the opportunity which is now offered. Mr. Copeland has been very successful in his previous voluntary classes in vocal training, expression and speaking. The new course may in a way be considered a natural sequence to the work which has gone before...
Chapter 1, Book II of Hill's Rhetoric must be read in English A before Saturday's lecture...
...frontispiece is a portrait of the Bishop from a photograph by Pach taken recently in Cambridge. There have been better likenesses, but as the Harvard picture, sentiment makes it good. After the portrait there is printed in full the last sermon Dr. Brooks preached in Appleton chapel. One cannot read it without seeing the great man in the pulpit and feeling again the force of his rushing words on the "necessity of life" and "the glory of obedience." There is also a fac-simile of the last page of the same sermon with the date of its delivery...
...most miscellaneous character; he received his early training at home and later went for short periods to several schools in and about London. At the age of thirteen, he went home and set himself to study, determined to be a poet. Although he never became a great scholar, he read widely and studied all the best critics and the French and Italian poets...