Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those who have but little respect for the student and the scholar in politics, are not the most favorable conditions under a government such as ours. (Applause.) And I think I see indications that in the future the thought and the learning of the country will be more plainly heard in the expression of popular will...
...Stratford, one morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that altar and have heard the sweet voice of Katharine Rogers repeat her vows; who knows but, on his return to his desk, Shakespeare bore with him a reminiscence of that sweet voice, and of that young bride, destined to become in more senses than one, the alma mater of the yet-undreamt-of College...
...have heard numerous complaints from members of the freshman class about the wretched state of the air in Sever 11 during the lectures in Rhetorics. The instructor has often informed the class that on account of the heaviness of the air he found it impossible to continue his lecture to the end of the hour. This is an evil from whose effects we all have suffered, and it would be gratifying to see the college do something, or pretend to do something to remedy it. The lecture rooms in the old hall of the University of Berlin are even worse...
...arrangements for the celebration have now taken such definite shape that the vague doubts about its success which were heard some weeks ago have quite disappeared. Everyone looks forward with confidence to three days of great and memorable festivity...
...throw his doors open to all members of the college. Last Wednesday night he gave an informal reception, which was but slimly attended on account of his general invitation published in our columns being misunderstood; the few who attended, however, had a most delightful time. All our readers who heard Dr. Hale's address at the opening of chapel will remember that he regretted that "we old fellows," as he put it, "cannot mix more intimately with you young fellows;" and this is the way he proposes to remedy it - by giving informal receptions once a week, at which...