Word: hear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spite of the bad weather a large audience assembled last evening in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum to hear Mr. Herbert Welsh, editor of "City and State." The subject of Mr. Welsh's talk was "The College Graduate and the Civil Service." The address was full of interest and very much to the point. A summary of it follows...
...attend lectures in the Fogg Museum. Whoever may be to blame for the error, there is no denying that the acoustic properties of the new lecture room are thoroughly wretched. In the back rows, especially when the room is full, it is often impossible to hear anything which is being said on the platform. It seems in this case particularly unfair to condemn the end of the alphabetical list to an attendance from which they can scarcely hope for much profit...
Tomorrow evening President Patton of Princeton will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel and we are sure that members of the University will be very glad of the opportunity to see and hear...
...denied that her system is productive of good results. There is, however, one objection to it,- that it allows an unfortunate neglect of opportunity. Students are too likely to forget that the visiting preachers to the University are chosen from among the most noted throughout the country. To hear them from day to day, and to meet them in the friendly way which is here possible, is a privilege which all must forfeit when they leave Harvard. Nowhere else will there be found such a succession of divines who are the leaders in their respective denominations...
...coming celebration in honor of Dean Langdell of the Law School affords a highly-prized opportunity to hear the well-known Sir Frederic Pollock, who is to deliver the oration at the public meeting in Sanders Theatre. Sir Frederic Pollock is a graduate of Cambridge in England; he is a University Professor at Oxford, editor of the Law Quarterly Review, and also principal editor of the English Law Reports. His earlier work as an author was chiefly in bringing out the principles which underlie the English case law. Of late, in addition, he has devoted himself largely to historical research...