Word: hear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...place for the delivery of the ivy oration. I think it should immediately precede or succeed the exercises about the tree. If raised seats surround the tree, the orator, standing on a platform in the centre, will be able both to see his audience and to make them hear him. Inasmuch as the ivy will probably never take root, it might as well be planted under the tree as behind Gore Hall...
...long time our columns have been filled with complaints and criticisms about the College Library, and we are glad to hear of contemplated improvements. The changes proposed are of such obvious advantage that they scarcely need comment. The time when study in the Library is no longer hindered by confusing noise, impassable bars, and the monotonous cry "Time to close the Library, as 't is sunset" will indeed be a time of long-sought comfort to every student. The suggestion about the alcoves is worthy of consideration; that about free criticism is almost unnecessary...
...ventilators; and in one corner two bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked girls were practising a graceful figure which I had never seen. They knew I was watching them; for I heard the light-haired one ask the other if I were not a student. The dark one appeared not to hear, at which the light one seemed to feel rebuffed, as if she had asked a forbidden question. She stopped laughing so merrily, and presently said the ice was n't at all nice in a rink...
...listen to the analysis and criticism and afterwards to the interpretation of a minuet of Mozart or a scherzo of Beethoven by one who himself ranks high as a critic and a composer. Mr. Paine is willing that all those not regularly members of the elective, but wishing to hear him play the various movements analyzed, should be present during the hour. The lectures are given at half past one, Wednesdays, in Lower Boylston...
...Chapel pulpit; and the result was that on these occasions the Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. At Cambridge Sunday is at best a dull day, especially when the cold weather prevents us from attending church in Boston; and if means were taken to enable the students to hear, on successive Sunday evenings, such men as Phillips Brooks, Edward Everett Hale, and James Freeman Clarke, the service would be thoroughly appreciated by the students...