The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-20
w 8 HAy STUDENTS READ
Nv CARLETON COLLEGE FIG
URES - Before The recen

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holiday vacation President Salmon OF
Carleton college addressed the students
on the matter of reading for general
culture, urging that during the holi-
days regular work be laid aside as far
as possible and rest and recreation be
secured by the reading of good books
which might not be too substantial. He
said that there was q vast field of liter
AZURE with which the educated man or
woman ought to be familiar and that
unless familiarity with it was gained
during student days it was not likely
to come at all; unless one acquired the
taste and the habit Of good reading
during the years when the mind was
plastic it was apt to become closed d
D fls This, he ' thought s should be be
reading. The Christmas g season rs sug-
gested Henry Van Dykes appropriate
stories. Among the standard authors
should not be overlooked, while among
recent writer's were Winston Churchill,
whose historical novels were Of high
order, and. Ralph Connor's wholesome
stories, most Of them illustrative of
types Of life in the northwest. The
1 House of Mirth, about which every
Zone was talking, he suggested, should
not be passed by, even tho its final i'm
! pressions were not exactly suited to the
taste.
After the vacation Of two weeks
the students were asked to submit writ
ten reports of books read. Taking the
signed lists only and excluding maya
i zines, poems and lectures, it appears
that 173 students who reported read
books. The book which heads the list
is "Lorna Doone,O followed closely. by
1.-THE House Of Mirth.' More than
!, ten read both Of these. Between five
and ten read ttThe Man on the Box, ,
MEDIA, Rose o the River,
af fhau{ Conquest to Of S Genan, y aarau
stark and "Beside the Bonnie Briel
Bush" The last named was undoubt
} eddy due to talk by Governor John
SON in which he referred to the book az
the one which had Influenced him most
Between two and five read "We Two; !,
1.-THE Wings Of the MoTniPgg sn Of Ba
Th Rens Ma9ria g q sunn W1iaa
Earn e1e9 oysT Twist bavid Sop mal
deld. y 1The Deluge,'' "The Affair a
the Inn ;, mvanity, F teTha p 2, Hn Tb
Came" Black Rock "The Masqqg g3
|, ader, ~ line h1glL Oh way, LIZ
Blazed Trail "iThe Gambler, - "Th'
Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come,
J FfAlice Of Old vincennes.''
The books read by women only wer
"Nedra,V nsmith College Stories,
tRebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm.
Twice as many women as men rea'
HThe House of Mirth, and twice a
many men as women read "Lorn
2 Doone.'
5 The authors most read were Dickens
) George Eliot, Henry Van Dyke, VIE
! ston Churchill and Ralph Connor.
= The classes of reading included goo
r fiction as 'tLast Days Of Pompeii,
NJohn Halifax" nSilas Mariner,
s1The virginian,' david Harum,
ADonovan,3' rive Two" and "Danit
j IN biography were Mulbach g .Ns
: poleon Bonaparte, Life of Mck1l
) 1ey,'' stMemoirs of U. 8: Grant,
) sLife Of Louis Kossuth, y sup Fro'
s Slavery. !,
: Among books Of essays were -
! Man e Value to Society, =, Talks .
: Lies IDEALS tGod - Method Wit
Man, -" Friendship 'fThe Idea Q
: The list shows that some students
: least in the desultory reading OF vac;
] tion days are not devotlng time
Z trash. .s,