Word: reading
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...FOOL.To read thy mind is difficult, I ween...
Literary young man at party. - "Miss Jones, have you seen Crabbe's Tales?" Young lady (scornfully) - "I was not aware that crabs had tails." Literary young man (covered with confusion) - "I beg your pardon. I should have said, read Crabbe's Tales." Young lady (angrily scornful) - "And I was not aware that red crabs had tails either." Exit young man. - Unidentified Exchange...
...RIDDLE will read the following selections in the Sanders Theatre, on Thursday, May 27, at 8 o'clock...
Students and also the public will be admitted without charge. There should be a large attendance at this opportunity that Mr. Riddle so kindly offers us of hearing him read in Cambridge...
Well, I'll tell you briefly what I did in my papers, and then you can judge for yourself whether I ought to be astonished or not. First came the Latin at sight. I had only read, in addition to the common authors, Ennius, Varro, Quintilian, Lucilius, Martial, Juvenal, and some twenty others. With this imperfect preparation I soon saw that I could do nothing, and was about to leave the room in despair, when it came into my head that the examiners were said to admire above all things originality. Now I am original or nothing. I determined...