Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...started for the door, but it was of no use. The fiend was in the way. "What was it the racquet?" Wellnigh stupefied, still I chanced to remember an old legend I had once heard. Perhaps the Lamia had reappeared in the form of Lampy. I caught on to the idea, and played the philosopher. I stared. Slowly but surely Lampy drooped. His legs elongated, his arms became wings, his nose became a beak. It was - it was the Ibis. Still he could talk. "Who did lemonade?" he squeaked. I took the only rope I had - my tennis...
...Heard'st thou from the spacious chambers...
...Heard I with tears opprest...
...class has received the certificate of Honors of the highest grade. It seems strange that there should have been such a falling off in scholarship as this result would presuppose. The marks of the last two years, in almost every case that we have ever heard of, have been higher than those of the first two. How then can the result we have be explained? Is the system or theory on which Final Honors are given different from that on which Second-Year Honors are given? It certainly looks so. And if we examine the present case in detail...
...scarcely to be blamed. There are few Easterners whose culture is not rather handed down than acquired by labor, and it is more the home life and the society of the fellows than the school studies and the elective courses that give the stamp to a man. I have heard it said that Bostonians are not learned, they only have the faculty of assimilation, of selection and arrangement. If they acquire what little knowledge they have in this informal and easy manner, shall we blame our Western friend for not attempting the more difficult road to wisdom? Shall...