Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harkened to the men who tell "tales of little meaning, though the words are strong." As the world is rushing headlong into the dismal future, he is thrusting himself backwards upon a Victorian past. Today at 12 he will journey to the Big Fogg Lecture Room, there to hear Professor Lowes upon the 19th Century poets. For a brief hour life will float gracefully along nodding to the gods upon Olympus and sweeping its skirts above the puddles of industry and high finance...
...down to another level. This is the crowd that seeks to dominate the Legion and our civilization." The Chicago chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union prayed for "our poor, deluded boys in Detroit. We must pray for them so that God. who works mysterious wonders, may hear. Satan has again cropped out." Henry Leonidas Stevens Jr. of Warsaw, N. C.. newly elected Legion commander, replied: "I have seen fewer drunks at this convention than ever at any other convention."* With him was his smiling wife. New Commander Stevens is 35, went from the University of North...
Manxmen mind their deemsters. Obsolete except on Great Britain's minute Isle of Man, deemsters are medieval judges-of-all-work. They hear actions and criminal cases of every sort, preside over Manx Grand Juries. Proudly last week Manxmen gathered to hear the outlandish swearing-in of Deemster Stevenson More. Deemster More, great and most respected antique of the Manx Bench, has been in retirement for ten years. Emerging last week, he was installed as sole deemster of one-half the Isle of Man. Richly and roundly he swore upon Holy Bible this mouth-filling Manx oath...
...last "Transcript" carries the story of Professor Julian Taylor, who has taught Latin at Colby continuously for sixty-three years. A scholar of the old sort who has been to a remarkable degree a friend of four thousand alumni now living, he reiterates the encouraging arguments that most men hear when they first begin to struggle with Latin in preparatory school. In his catchphrase, "If you would succeed in the stock market, study Latin," Professor Taylor expresses his belief that "knowledge is not power; judgment is power . . . Latin helps you in guessing...
...enthusiastic group of Freshman baseball fans gathered yesterday in the upstairs common room of the Union to hear the second game in the World Series. These broadcasts have been given every year, and have generally been open to any member of the University. This year, however, since the Union has been transformed into a Freshman sanctum, they are open only to the class...