Word: hear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to the storm last evening only a very small congregation was present at the chapel to hear Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke of New York...
Appleton Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity, last evening, by a congregation who came to hear the Rev. Brooke Herford preach. He took as his subject the sacredness of law, and selected the text from the eighteenth verse of Psalm CXIX. He said that the sacredness of law was observable, primarily, in human affairs. All earthy conditions submit to law, else chaos and confusion ensue. Hence we should render a willing loyalty. Dr. Herford said that freedom was overdone in this country because there is so little reverence for law as law. Many yield to authority since they know...
...Thursday morning a private business meeting was held, but in the afternoon other papers were read and the students were invited to hear them...
Mass. 3 was filled yesterday by the members of History 13 and a great many outsiders who came to hear Professor Hart's lecture on Presidential Elections. The system of choosing the presidential electors was explained and the history of the elections since the time of Washington were discussed at length. This was done partly to give an opportunity to the voting men of the class to go home and cast their ballots without losing a lecture, and partly to give an idea to the rest of the class of the manner of conducting elections today...
...Professor Toy were a member of some college other than our own, his reputation as a scholar and a traveller would undoubtedly bring out a large attendance, but the fact of his connection with the college means to a number of men that as they can see and hear him at almost any time, there is but little use in going to his lecture. If there is anyone who, by thorough investigation and close study can handle the topic of "Mohammed and the Koran" in a masterly way, it is Professor Toy, and those who hear him will certainly...