Word: hear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...DEAR BLUSH, - As I hear that many improvements are making in your Library at Harvard, perhaps an account of some of the unreformed abuses in our transatlantic libraries would be of interest...
When the new Latin Grammar, of which we hear so much, comes out (I understand it has already progressed as far as title-page and dedication), my work will be considerably lessened...
...Niagara Index man is still on the war-path. The Bowdoin Orient and the Dartmouth are the special objects of his spite this time. Hear what he says: "The Orient has seven editors, but we never could, and probably never will, be able to locate their labors. The paper has no editorials. "The nine boyish editors of the Dartmouth are in paroxysms of grief..... Why our editors do not flaunt their patronymics to the breeze is none of the Dartmouth's business." Harvard comes in for the following: "This [i. e. the restriction of books at the Library...
...were unable to fill his place from the College, so we hired Tommy Bond to come in as special student. Since that, our whole nine has become professional. "That fellow," pointing to a particularly villanous-looking specimen of the plug ugly, "is Mike Rooney the shortstop." I waited to hear no more, but turned and left the building. What I saw in the Yard and in Sever Hall I will reserve for another letter...
...earnestly hoped by those who have been unable to go to Boston and hear Professor Child's lectures on the ballad-poetry of England and Scotland, that it may some time be found practicable to repeat the lectures in Cambridge...