Word: hear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hear that, in future, Commencement is to be much more comprehensive. Up to this time, the Divinity School has been the only department which has had a separate Commencement, for the other schools receive their degrees at the same time with the Academic students. The Divinity School Commencement is, however, to be discontinued, and orations have been assigned to those students who have obtained the requisite mark. The other schools which have neither had a Commencement of their own nor have been represented in the Academic Commencement will hereafter take part in the exercises. There will also be addresses delivered...
...Hear I the music...
...These men are good and true. They are the bone and sinew of our people. In them is found that grand American intellect which, unlike the faltering mind of the tyrant-ridden European, perceives the truth and will not wait to hear it disputed. In them is found that noble energy which advances the cause of truth when truth is once perceived, which turns a deaf ear to the sophistical arguments of unprincipled supporters of a state of things which the progress of the modern world has at last made unendurable, and which, having attained one great end, does...
...waded through, my chum giving, from time to time, a grunt of satisfaction or more frequently of mingled pity and disgust, when my eye fell upon a poem. "Shall I read you this?" I said. "O, skip the poetry!" was his answer. "But you might at least hear the title," said I. "Well, what is it," growled he. I said humbly, "Lines to a Fading Rose"; it begins...
...battle's din he seems to hear, he wakes...