Word: reads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland began his final lecture last evening with a brief description of a country library in which he passed much time and read many books before coming to college. Among the volumes of this collection was an early edition of the Waverley novels. Sir Walter, said the speaker, is not to be judged by his heroes and heroines, who are for the most part filled with sawdust rather than blood. Nor are his large and moving pictures of history and famous personages of the past, picturesque and effective though they usually are, to be accounted his most important contribution...
...Shakespeare Club will meet Wednesday evening, April 15, at 7.30 o'clock in Little's four. "King Henry VIII" will be read...
...Clara Lane; "Lazarillo," Miss Hattie Belle Ladd; "Charles II, King of Spain," Mr. J. K. Murray; "Don Jose de Santarem, his Minister," Mr. William Wolff; "Don Caesar de Bazan," Mr. Thomas H. Persse; "Marquis de Montefiori," Mr. Arthur Wooley; "Alcade," Mr. Richard Jones; "Captain of the Guards," Mr. John Read; "Marchioness de Montefiori," Miss Bertha Wilson...
...Copeland has been showing students how to use them. He has talked of books as if he loved them, and not as if they were lessons that it was necessary for the student to learn if he would be an educated man. He has led men to read the best things in literature, not as a task, but as a pleasure. He has told them what to read as well as how they should read it. His evening talks have been very popular and have attracted large audiences for he has always treated his subject in in a bright, entertaining...
...TAYLOR.ST. PAUL'S SOCIETY.- There will be a meeting of the St. Paul's Society in 17 Grays on Wednesday, April 8, at 7 p. m. Evening prayer will be read on Easter Tuesday at 7 p. m. All members of the University are invited...