Word: heard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There comes an unsuspecting classmate. The spider is upon him. I know just what he will say. I have heard it often, and it has become amusing to me. Let us draw nearer...
...mineralogy to improve his eyesight. Heaven knows there's need of improvement, for he is near-sighted, cross-eyed, and, according to Dr. Jeffries, color-blind. I don't elect Chemistry; in fact, I know so little about it that at the dinner-table, when the Freshman who has heard Cook's lectures asks me to "approximate the H2O," I stare stupidly at him, and cannot understand that he wishes me to pass him the water...
...credulous, we could not be brought to believe that such glees as the writer mentions are too difficult for men with any knowledge of music and with fair voices, and much less can we believe that they are too difficult for our Glee Club. If "W" had lately heard the Glee Club sing, he would have recognized the fact that their music is hardly open to the charge of being too difficult; many of the College songs he would like sung are certainly much harder to master. There is no reason why we should not hear a few college songs...
Intercollegiate Races. - In reference to a resumption of these races, Wesleyan last week sent letters to Brown, Bowdoin, Williams, Trinity, Dartmouth, and Amherst. The replies were not encouraging. Brown and Amherst decline, Dartmouth and Bowdoin have not been heard from, and Trinity and Williams agreed to meet Wesleyan at a convention which was held at Springfield on March 27. What decision was arrived at is not yet known, but it is to be hoped that a race may be arranged between these three colleges...
...several movements of this work were written at different periods of the composer's life, and yet the unity of thought and treatment is well preserved throughout. There are some commonplaces in it, however, and it might have been condensed a little by the composer to its advantage. We heard some one remark that the several movements were played in too rapid succession, but Mr. Thomas was evidently aware that the composer expressly desired that this should...