Word: hear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lack of sufficient space in which to bestow themselves. Now Appleton Chapel was built for Harvard College and for the use of Harvard students. Eminent preachers are engaged to come here and talk to us, and the more eminent the preachers are, the better pleased are we to hear them. By courtesy-misplaced it would seem-the college authorities have extended the privilege of hearing these clergymen in Appleton Chapel to the people of Cambridge. But the people of Cambridge wrongfully abuse this privilege by crowding out those who have the right. When even an ultra-conscientious man goes...
...expiration of the hour, a number of men left the room, and the noise made by their departure was increased by laughter and something very like hissing from those in the seats near the doors. This made it at times very difficult for those interested in the lecture to hear what was being said. The lectures in English B are voluntar, and those who do not care enough for the subject to keep quiet through the entire hour had better stay away. In History I very much the same thing has been noticeable for several weeks. Harvard...
...truly sorry to hear of the dissolution of the Everett Athenaeum. This society, since its formation in 1868, has always been composed of studious, industrious men, and even if it has not sustained its originally literary character, yet it has served to bring together in a pleasant, social way, those members of each succeeding sophomore class, who could certainly have sustained it as well as did their predecessors. We trust that the plan now under consideration for forming a new literary society may be eminently successful, and that we shall soon hear that the Everett Athenaeum is flourishing again under...
...think we express the sentiments of the college in wishing that the management will let us hear Miss Emma Juch before the end of the season...
...appear like a fool, that he never does anything at all." So our hands are tied by this fearful spectre of making a fool of ourselves. We have seen men who make it their peculiar business to circulate through the college, say nothing themselves, and as soon as they hear an opinion expressed by any one unite in one pitiful bray, "What an ass!" This is sometimes done by the voice, sometimes by pantomime. The two styles add variety to a pastime otherwise monotonous, and as disgusting as it is monotonous. If any of these peculiarly constructed individuals should chance...