Word: reading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...college men give up disfiguring the books they read...
...questionable character which the Library council prudishly, it is said, keep under lock and key, thus depriving us of man's peculiar distinction, - the knowledge of good and evil. Some books may have been put under restriction rather hastily. Walt Whitman was in disgrace, though, to our minds, reading his verses, if a crime, is in itself sufficient penance; and Swinburne was forbidden, while Byron was not. But the list of restricted books has been carefully revised, and the number upon it is now almost ludicrously small. Some may think that they should be permitted to read even these...
...following madrigal, from the Trinity Tablet, is too pretty to be read only by our friends at Hartford...
DEAR W -: I have been to my uncle's at Berry Hill, Hants, for the Christmas holidays, or you may be sure I should not have delayed so long in answering your last letter, and in thanking you for the Harvard papers you sent me. I read in them the account of last autumn's sports, but, to tell you frankly, I was surprised as much at the poor records as at the few entries. To think that only two contestants appeared for the half-mile run, for instance, - only two out of a thousand men at your University...
...however, the Professor happening to read a theme in which there were several Misspelled Words, two references to Matthew Arnold, a remarkable Mixture of Metaphors, as well as a surprising Lack of Unity, all waited, as they usually did, for a few crushing Remarks from the acute Senior. What was their delight to find him, instead, taking many Notes, blushing to the Roots of his Hair and completely Tongue-tied...