Word: reade
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...admit the advantages of the system. It is easier to throw the dice for per cents than to estimate the true value of a year's work. It saves trouble to read through a book and affix to it a cabalistic sign. On the other hand, it requires care and judgment to note accurately the worth of daily work. But an instructor's estimate of men, not marks, would be the fairer method. Two examinations - one upon entrance, one for a degree - would obviate the difficulties of a continuous struggle for marks; if this change be too radical, let rank...
This was first published in the poetical columns of a country newspaper, and I shall not soon forget how I laughed in my sleeve, when my aunt, a dear sympathetic creature, read it to me, with tears in her eyes. "The author of that," said she, "must have been in deep affliction." I did not destroy the illusion for her by disclosing my hand in the affair...
...Ladies' Night of the Papyrus Club, Mr. Ticknor read a poem, entitled "From Afar...
...those who have omitted examinations to pass should read the notice on the bulletin board...
...change in the cuisine has taken place, and I am afraid that these lines were not read in the right spirit by her to whom they were addressed; perhaps she never got them, - perhaps she used them for curl-papers, - perhaps (oh, bitter thought!) she cannot read...