Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lectures which are given could be got by the student far better and in far less time from books which are readily available, and most lecturers, in attempting to 'cover the ground' in a given number of lectures, greatly overtax the capacity of their students by assimilating by ear long chains of fact and argument. There is a case for special lectures given by the expert for the purpose of expounding and testing a new discovery; there is a case for the popular lecture as a means of arousing attention; but there is no case, we believe, for the lecture...
...offspring of the Liberal Club, leaping full armed from the brain to fill the need for some magazine of "opinion". As such, it will gratify a want which has long been felt. But if its opinions become opinionated, and the "Gadfly" contents itself in buzzing in only one ear and leaves the other alone, if it demonstrates that "opinions" of undergraduates are immature and of not much value, it would fare better on some even more lopsided planet. But that time will show; to begin with the CRIMSON wishes the "Gadfly" every success on a long, valuable flight...
...order,--but his greatest usefulness at the conference, from the Turkish point of view at least, lies in the fact that he is almost stone deaf. His hearing, writes a correspondent, is so poor that he never goes anywhere without an aide-de-camp to rebellow into Ishmet's ear everything that has been shouted at him. Add to this handicap the point that Ishmet, though understanding French, is the "least proficient of all Turks in speaking it"--and his value at a conference where all the official business is conducted in French can hardly be underestimated...
...been sent to me to read and which between you and I I will never read as have got my work cut out for me, well any way the copies I have read, has all been printed in black inks on paper as white as a whiffle doover's ear and what could be whiter...
...impart to "Gretchen am Spinnrade," the soft sheen, the delicate shadings, which the composer intended. She succeeded not so well with some of the other numbers of her program not because of consistently bad singing of them as because of blotches, occasional hard topes which grated on the ear. It is to be regretted that singers like Miss Braslau whose good taste would naturally shun such things are forced by a certain portion of their audience to sing such worthless pieces of sentimentality as May Brahe's "I Passed by Your Window...