Word: hear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of Law School men went to Brockton last evening to hear Mr. John G. Brooks speech to laboring...
...very large congregation assembled in the chapel last evening to hear Dr. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn. The subject of the discourse was "The Foundations of Christian Belief." It was a most eloquent sermon, and those students who did not hear it certainly lost a great opportunity. Dr. Abbott described the present age as one of great questionings; but he said that he was glad to find it so, because an age of doubt is an age of advancement. More intelligent bases of belief are now demanded and old allegiances are being cast away. We cannot, however, prove spiritual truths...
...spite of the storm, a large audience assembled in Sever 11 last night to hear the strongest argument for free trade that has been made here for some time. The lecturer, Rev. John G. Brooks of Brockton, said that the argument that a high tariff raises wages is entirely untenable, and that private self-interest, not anxiety about the condition of the laborer, was the real motive of the protectionist. The general average of wages is entirely unaffected by protection, since the rate of wages depends only on the amount produced by the laborer. It is said that when wages...
...subscriptions for votes may be sent to him at No. 41 East 12th St., or at the Harvard Club, No. 11 West 22nd St., New York. If anyone can suggest any plan for furthering Harvard's chances in the matter, the Editors of the CRIMSON will be happy to hear from...
...these are things which it behooves every man to know. How often is the reading of a newspaper article or some paragraph from a book completely unintelligible owing to the wretched presentation of the reader, who has no conception of the proper means of making the matter understood! We hear more slovenly enunciation and villainous pronunciation than we hear careful and correct, for the main reason that men have not had their attention drawn to their mistakes and they continue in blunders which a little study would prevent. This is what is given in the elocution sections and those...