Word: reads
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Smith told many other stories also, and read passages from two of his books "The Old-Fashioned Gentleman," and "The Under Dog"; all to show how in different walks of life, toleration and sympathy are the prime requisites of a gentleman...
...still found time for activity both as author and as editor. Only the day before his death a volume of fifteen essays and addresses was received by his friends, and a translation of the treatise of Vitruvius on ancient architecture was rapidly nearing completion, most of which had been read to a small circle of his friends, for their criticism and to their delight...
...order to prove that no amount of forehandedness will enable all the students to do all the reading in some courses, we take the following concrete example. In Anthropology 1, a course taken by over 100 men, the students were assigned for the last conference to read 120 pages in a book of which there are two copies. Assuming that each man could cover the reading at the rate of 40 pages an hour, and that these books were in constant use, it would require exactly 14 days for the class to do the work. It is obviously impossible that...
With the Library, as it is, the centre of all academic activity, it is strange indeed that such inadequate provision is made for students reading in the larger courses. It not infrequently happens that a class of from one to two hundred men is assigned to read one hundred pages in one book for a section meeting. By a simple calculation it is evident that if the book were in constant use for every available hour during two weeks, only one hundred and fifty-four men could do the reading and this is taking for granted that the work...
...Copeland will talk this evening at 9 o'clock in the Dining Room of the Union on "Parody." Following this he will read several famous and brilliant parodies by Thackeray, Bret Harte, Calverley, J. K. Stephen, and others. The reading is open only to members of the Union...