Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When all the board had heard this there was a moment of silence, interrupted by our special telegram operator breaking into a laugh over an ambitious looking piece of brown paper he had picked up. He began to read...
Goodies are of two kinds, candy and Irish; but gimme candy. So are potatoes, but I like sweet potatoes best. My brother Fred, he's at college, says he don't like goodies, but he's stuck up, anyhow, and I heard Miss May tell Miss Archer yesterday that she thought Fred real conceited, there now! But Jenny May, that's Miss May's sister, says she's mashed on Fred. How funny. Jenny's a nice girl, only she will tease a feller about kissing people. Well, I never kissed a girl, - 'd'ruther play marbles...
...instructor. In a course like this, when some of the finest dramatic and poetic passages in English literature are met with, we should naturally expect some attempt at elocution, or, at least, some interest in trying to read well. But the fact is that nowhere is heard such dismal exhibitions in elocution, and even the recurrence of the finest passages seems to fail to relieve the prosiness of delivery. It would be of considerable advantage to the interest of the course if some means could be taken, during this second half-year, to improve the standard of the reading...
...event occurs on account of which Harvard College is compelled to stop for a moment her daily routine of recitations. The annual day of prayer for colleges, a day in which nearly all other colleges suspend recitations, is totally disregarded at Harvard. In fact, it is hardly ever heard of here. Washington's Birthday and other legal holidays are disregarded in the same manner. But yesterday an event occurred that demanded at least some little respect from the faculty. The funeral services over one of our instructors were held in the chapel yesterday noon. During the hours that these last...
Prof. Dolbear's new telephone is so delicate that a whisper has been distinctly heard through 350 miles of submerged cable...