Word: reads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland, who spoke in Sever Hall the other evening on "Reading Aloud," is going to talk this evening at the Christian Union Building 48 Boylston St. Boston. The subject of the lecture will be "Shakespeare - Fin de Siecle;" and after speaking, Mr. Copeland will read from Hamlet and other plays. No admission will be charged and anyone reaching the hall at about quarter to eight will be sure of a seat. This talk will be the first in a course of twenty lessons...
...Hayes read a selection for the benefit of the Monroe Fund at Wellesley in Saturday...
...last Tennyson was progressive. His thought was more profound, and his diction more energetic. There is no need of a softening of criticism as we read his last volume. This little book of less than a thousand lines possesses more than a sentimental value. It shows to the full Tennyson's bread+++h, variety, suggestiveness, and purity of diction...
...made Poet Laureate, and in the same year he published his "In Memoriam." and this poem has now come to mourners. We make no attempt to judge Tennyson, nor to give him his proper rank. We are, in the most serious sense, hero-worshippers before him. The more we read, the more must we admire at once his gentle loveliness, his subtle charm, his manly greatness, and above all, his pure and lofty tone of mind...
...Copeland then read very charmingly a few selections, from. Stevenson, Shakespeare, Browning and Thackeray...