Word: hear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...until the latter part of May. This year, however, practice was begun early, and the club has been fortunate in having a number of members who are on the university club. Under these circumstances, they should be by this time in good trim for singing. The college expects to hear from them soon after the recess, and the college must not be disappointed. There are plenty of poverty stricken organizations which would gladly accept any surplus earnings that the Freshman Glee Club may be able in the future to donate...
...perhaps, the only safe method to be pursued in a determined course of reading. An omnivorous reader is almost invariably a a thinker of acumen. There is something in being brought face to face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree. We hear again and again the cry that this is an over-read world, and that scholars are degenerating into book-worms. At times some peculiarly independent thinker decries reading as debilitating to the mind, and advocates a little more use of the brains. But these invectives are few and far between...
...enthusiastic audience filled Boylston Hall to overflowing last night to hear Prof. Trealease deliver his lecture on the fertilization of flowers. Prof. Trelease had a thorough control of his subject and held the attention of the audience for an hour and a half; he spoke in a clear voice, and was ably aided by Mr. Huntington who kindly volunteered to manage the stereopticon which Prof. Cook generously lent for the occasion. Although the lecture was a thoroughly scientific one, it was not at all too abstruse to be be followed by the novices in the audience...
Holden was well filled last evening by those who went to hear Mr. Studd...
...audiences that have assembled in Holden the past week to hear Mr. Studd have been exceedingly large. We believe that the average attendance at the meetings has been very nearly, if not quite a hundred. This interest in the religious subjects, which Mr. Studd has presented and discussed, may surprise many of those away from the college, who cry against Harvard for her indifference to matters of religion. The fact is that Harvard men are not so indifferent after all, as the outside world would have them. The events of the past week, in connection with Mr. Studd's meetings...