Word: unread
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reading than was customary in former years. The figures which we published some days ago about the increased circulation of the month of November are in themselves the best indicators of this change. It would be uncharitable and unreasonable to suppose that the books are taken out and returned unread. We may therefore assert that nearly 2000 more volumes were read in the month of November of this year than in any other month since the university's existence. No true observer can fail to see the obvious advantages arising from this increase in the reading of the students...
...popular writer. This last qualification is by no means to be despised. Young students are much more likely to become enthusiastic about a teacher who is widely known to the great reading public than about one whose reputation has not travelled beyond common rooms, and whose fame rests on unread papers in the transactions of some learned society. - [St. James' Gazette...