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...York Times declares Geo. Riddle to be the most accomplished and versatile reader...
...BRADFORD,Secretary.The New York Times speaks of "Mr. George Riddle, the master of elocution at Harvard, the fine and scholarly impersonator of the Greek OEdipus, and the most delightful and versatile reader in New England today...
...that which had been so ably said by those preceding him, but that he felt he must take this opportunity of testifying to the love and reverence which he had for Dr. Walker. His association with him began when, as a boy, he was selected to be his reader, as his eyesight was beginning to fail. For several years he read to him two hours a day, the doctor in the meantime advising and directing his studies, and finally supplying him with the means of obtaining a collegiate education. In after life his advice was of the greatest assistance...
...will agree, in these foreign and exotic forms, and has from time to time published verses highly creditable, but we scarcely dare to whisper our opinion that it has gone beyond the bounds of moderation in restricting its effusions to these peculiar forms, which inevitably fall upon the reader, because only certain turns of idea and expression are possible in them, while the simpler old fashioned straight-away measures allow all themes and all licenses of thought and subject. The majority of appropriate college themes in French metres would find themselves ill at ease when so finely gotten...
Stuart Cumberland, the thought reader and exposer of spiritualism, now performing in Boston, advertises his exhibition as "under the moral support of the various professors of Harvard University...