Word: reading
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...these things are so, the student may study conscientiously, but his study will be a task. He may pore over the pages of his classics in the prescribed manner, but he will rise from his labor with no notion of the grandeur of the work which he has read, - only with a vague idea of disconnected subjunctives and confused optatives floating through his troubled and wearied brain...
...while in college, and now feel their deficiency when called upon to speak in public. The fact that out of the twenty or twenty-five Freshmen selected as meriting the right even to compete for the ten Lee prizes, only six received any, clearly shows that an ability to read common prose well and understandingly is a rare accomplishment among them...
...plain why Grain, Flour, and Feed Stores, Meat Depots, Savings Banks, and Life Insurance Companies should find it for their interest to do this thing. We nowhere find advertisements of the Philosopher's Stone, or of the Circular Square; but we do read of "wholesome pie," which falls into the same category. Attorneys-at-Law, Shaving Bazaars, and Fire Extinguishers, all these may be admitted. But we do most seriously advocate the incarceration in an insane asylum of the man who repeatedly advertises in a Western exchange his little hotel, and states, as an extra inducement to college customers, that...
...victim of such a fellow once. He would drop in after breakfast, just to take a smoke, and as a matter of course read the morning paper first. Thinking possession as good as ownership, he appropriated my books without asking leave, and if in consequence of this appropriation I "deaded" or "fizzled," he expressed the liveliest sympathy for my mishap, and would offer the consoling advice that I ought to study harder. There was something strange about the fact that the day after I received a check he would invariably want to borrow a little money...
...rising one morning I discovered that a letter had been pushed under my door. I hastened to it, picked it up, and quickly tore it open; the first line commenced "Dear Will." I hesitated, read three or four more lines, and became sensible of some mistake. I looked at the envelope; it bore the name of my friend with the number of my room. Was it possible? It was; after this his letters came regularly to my room...