Word: heard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Most of us have heard that the English government watch the debates in order to select the most promising speakers and put them in office; whether this be true or not, there have certainly been many men who were prominent in the Societies and afterwards attained great prominence in public life. For instance, in a list of one hundred and fifty five Presidents at Oxford there are thirty who are marked as M. P.'s, or as in some way connected with the government, while almost seventy have some distinction either of rank or in the government, in the Universities...
...late Mr. Benjamin Russell, well known as the editor, during many years, of the Columbian Centinel, used to relate that he was then a boy at school in Boston; and the pedagogue, when he heard that morning of Lord Percy's sally, laconically remarked, "Boys! War's begun. School's done. You may go." Russell followed the soldiers out through Roxbury; but when he returned on that evening, he was refused entry into the city, and was obliged to remain nearly a year, until the evacuation of Boston in March following, beyond the ken of his parents...
...would seem that at last the royal road to learning had been found. Most of our readers in Cambridge have already heard of the great increase in our facilities for learning which the kindness of our instructors proposes to offer next year. It is intended that, on two or three evenings of the week, the instructors in the various languages shall hold readings, like those we have at present by Professor Child and Professor Palmer, so arranged that in the course of four years every undergraduate may, without undertaking any extra work, be able to become acquainted with the writings...
...have often heard it stated that there is more general musical culture in this country than in England; and this assertion seems borne out by the fact that the greatest names which appear in the programme of the Annual Malvern College Concert are those of Donizetti and Diabelli, who have one selection each out of fourteen numbers. We think with complacency of the selections from Mendelssohn, Haydn, Weber, and Wagner which filled the programme of our last concert. The poetry in the Malvernian is better than that in most of our English exchanges...
...below his average. During the evening he delivered an aria from Don Giovanni and several other excellent selections, all of which were warmly received by the audience. His solo from Don Giovanni is especially worthy of praise, and was on this occasion as well delivered as we have ever heard it on the amateur stage...