Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the harrowing scenes of the accident near Springfield last week one of the Harvard men was heard to say, "By jingo! This will furnish subjects for daily themes for the next six months...
...talkers invariably arrive late and their seats are always far from the door. They are seen beyond a doubt (if they desire that), but unfortunately they are heard too. In time they reach their seats, there is a pause for a moment and then the conversation begins. The range it takes is wide: one morning the freshman crew, the glee club, the banjo club, theatres, sport in general and the triumphs of one of the speakers in society, were discussed in the compass of forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that...
...Harvard, the first university in the land, with a library shrouded in Egyptian darkness in the hours when men's brains are liable to be most active, is the disgusted cry we have heard about us for months. Every earnest student feels the painful and unwarranted deeds that is put to his reading hours by the shrill cry, "library closed" at sunset every...
...which the gymnasium authorities responded to our suggestion that the condition of the shower-baths should be improved, leads us to hope that they will be equally prompt now, when we remind them of the worn-out condition of the balls and pins in the bowling alleys. We have heard many complaints on this account, from the men who daily seek amusement by bowling. The good balls are so few, that one must go begging at all the alleys before one can get enough to play with...
...origin of college cheers may be traced to the boating contests of twenty-five years ago on Lake Quinsigamond between Harvard and Yale in the old fashioned sixes. The 'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah! was then first heard; that of Harvard rolled out with a full strong sound, while that of Yale was given sharply and defiantly. Although both cheers look the same in print, the similarity is more apparent than real. Anyone who has ever been present at an athletic contest between these rival Universities will have readily observed the difference between the cheers. In the Town and Gown affrays, which...