Word: hear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...What I hear about our debates is truly surprising and pleases me beyond measure. The men who are heard in the college debates have positive reality and naturalness, and these qualities are always most effective. How often some of us have heard 'Be natural,' 'Meet with force the resistance before you,' 'Speak out straight from the heart,' 'Suit the action to the thought.' Heeding these directions, because they have appealed forcibly to the common sense of those who heard them, Harvard men have become more impressive and convincing on the platform. These qualities have helped immeasurably to our success...
...present there seems no basis for a belief that it would be advisable to change the present methods. Professor Shaler, however, will be glad to hear, either personally or by letter, any opinons or suggestions which men may have to offer...
Again we remind all members of the University who wish to hear Dr. Fiske's second lecture this evening of the necessity of being on hand early. On Tuesday there were a large number of students standing in the aisles before the time announced for the lecture to begin. It is a shame that this should be so, but if the University does not see fit to limit the attendance of outsiders, there is nothing for students to do but to anticipate the inhabitants of Cambridge at the doors...
Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes's eloquent Memorial Day address of last spring follows. Its publication in the Magazine happily puts it within the reach of the many Harvard men who were unable to hear...
...which resulted in the overwhelming defeat of Pennsylvania. We want more of the kind that followed the Princeton game this year. It may hurt the feelings of eleven men to be cursed out after a defeat, but not as much as it aggravates eleven hundred men constantly to hear the name of their Alma Mater held up to ridicule and contempt...