Word: reads
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...morning session the topic of discussion was: "The Basis of an Efficient Education--Culture or Vocation?" A. W. Roberts '81, teacher of classics in the Brookline High School, and A. E. Kennelly, professor of electrical engineering, read papers on the subject. In concluding Mr. Roberts said that he believed that culture can be obtained from the proper study of many different subjects; that there is no real opposition between culture and vocation, but that the study of a vocation begun too earily is likely to interfere with the gaining of culture, and result in loss to the individual...
...Norton '46, chairman of the assembly, opened the meeting by a short address, which is printed in full below. The other speakers of the evening were President Eliot '53 and Colonel T. W. Higginson '41. A poem, which is also printed below, by T. B. Aldrich h.'96 was read by Mr. Copeland, owing to the illness of Mr. Aldrich. The principal address of the evening was written by Mr. W. D. Howells h.'67, but on account of Mr. Howell's illness, it was read by Professor Bliss Perry. In addition to the addresses of the evening a short...
...Forty years ago today the Boston Daily Advertiser contained some verses addressed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on his birthday. They were signed with the initials of his neighbor, friend and brother poet, Lowell. The second stanza read as follows...
...editor of one of the great London weeklies said to an American traveller a few years ago: 'A stranger can hardly have an idea of how familiar many of our working people, especially women, are with Longfellow. Thousands can repeat some of his poems who have never read a line of Tennyson and probably never heard of Browning...
...will be held, at which addresses will be made by President Eliot, Colonel T. W. Higginson '41 and Professor C. E. Norton '46. Owing to illness Mr. W. D. Howells h.'67, who was to be the principal speaker will be unable to attend, but his address will be read by Professor Bliss Perry of the department of English. For the same reason Mr. T. B. Aldrich will not be present, but his poem will be rendered by Mr. C. T. Copeland '82 of the English department. A special chorus from the public schools will sing the cantata, "The Village...