Word: hear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...number of books has increased so rapidly that there is now great need of an addition. In many instances it has been found necessary to heap the books on the floor. Files of important newspapers have to be stowed in out-of-the-way places, and we hear there is no room on the shelves for a dozen additional volumes. If an addition is to be made to Gore Hall, the sooner it is done the better. Each year increases the necessity and importance of such alterations...
...hear that the present volume of The Spectrum is to be used as a text-book in the post-graduate courses of mechanics...
...like to hear the shout ring clear...
This proposed addition of a course in political economy is one step towards the desired end. This, with the course already taught, the courses on constitutional history, elocution, and perhaps ethics, constitutes a good nucleus to which others may in time be added. When we hear the expressions of fear from all around us of the consequences of so general and great ignorance on financial subjects, we cannot ask too much instruction on such vital principles...
...that there are not very many young men in this institution - and we certainly do not think there is at Harvard or Yale - who have read the political history of the United States as given by Van Buren, Greeley, or Stevens; if there is, we should be glad to hear from them." We don't think there is many, but if there WAS, we would send a few to Cornell to lighten the darkness which oppresses them. After reading the above it will be hard to reconcile the following statement of the same paper with any ability or care...