Word: ear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...requirements for admission to the regular classical course at Tufts College have been amended as follows: Knowledge of French or German, a good knowledge of the elementary grammar of the language which he presents for admission; ability to pronounce and recognize readily familiar words and phrases by ear, and the candidate also must have read at least two hundred pages of French or one hundred pages of German. This will also be a requirement to the engineering course. A greater requirement is to be made for admission to the philosophical course...
...choir sang Sullivan's "The strain upraise," "Gilbert's "Awake thou that sleepest," and "Incline thine ear," by Hernmel...
...Episode and finished the play. He did not attempt to give a dramatic delivery of the story, but to tell it in such a way that an intelligent comprehension of its true greatness might be gained by the audience. Mr. Lawton's rhythmic translation was most pleasing to the ear, and his attempts to render the odes into English verse of the Trochaic metre was signally successful. The college is indebted to Mr. Lawton for his lectures, and to the Classical Club for the energy which they have displayed thus early in the term...
LOST.- A pearl ear ring. Finder will be rewarded on leaving...
...from figures of such perfect proportions.' Early in the history of their civilization we find that they bestowed great care upon the culture of the physical organism, for they knew that if the soil were not well tilled, ploughed and regenerated by fertilizers it could not produce the golden ear and the luxuriant sheaf. Both Homer and Pindar manifested great enthusiasm in singing the praises of bodily strength and skill. The laws of Lycurgus provided free training-schools for the thorough physical education of both sexes. Four different localities were consecrated to the Panhellenic games,' at which the athletes...