Word: well-read
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Perhaps the aim of these examiners, especially the professor kind, may be to point out the fact that a college graduate is supposed to be well-read; he is interested in life; he knows common facts of literature and history and geography for his own satisfaction. It is not for professors to teach general knowledge, even if their students do not know an artichoke; nor are the colleges guilty of a grave omission in their duties; nor are professors and students more ignorant now than they used to be. If these examiners are seeking to expose really dangerous ignorance, they...
...most interesting piece of work in the last number of the Advocate is the editorial. It deals with the two duties which devolve upon every man of culture: first, to keep himself familiar with the events of the day; second, to be well-read in literature, past and present. In an unusually clear, unaffected and forceful way it emphasizes ideas that most undergraduates might well consider and adopt...
...following article by G.H. Montague '01, brings us back from the prairies to our own haunts--Undergraduate reading, or rather, the lack of it, is his subject. It is a vigorous reply to the accusation that the Harvard undergraduate of today is less well-read than his predecessor of fifty years...
...sees this misapprehension in reading-men who rush through book after book - novels, sermons, poems, biographies, travels, plays, histories - only that they may feel, when they have finished, that they have read them and are therefore "well-read" men. How different from people in the last century, who perused their Clarissa Harlowe, Rape of the Lock, Pilgrim's Progress, and Shakespeare till they almost knew them by heart, and thoroughly understood and appreciated much that was in them! Would it not be better if we, in our day, could only bring ourselves to give up the one thousand...