Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...columns of the daily press. This notice was necessarily vague and did not give any of the details which it could only interest the Harvard undergraduate to know. The students have in consequence no exact knowledge of the nature of the new system, and much speculation is heard among them as to how it will be conducted...
...often happens that students when about to leave college, are heard to deplore the fact that their education has been so much less broad and complete than they could have desired, and that certain sides of themselves seem altogether untouched by their college training, and certain subjects utterly uninvestigated. Such complaints were scarcely heard in the times when a defined course of study was requisite for a degree; then, the regrets were that such and such studies from which neither pleasure nor profit had been derived had consumed so much valuable time. All grounds for these regrets are now removed...
...religious worship. The noble words of Phillips Brooks - "We now give you religion, with the only foreign element which it formerly had, removed; we appeal to your humanity to preserve it. We appeal to you as men, not as students" - these words will never be forgotten by those who heard them at the time. It must be gratifying to the men who granted with doubt and fearing the almost unanimous petition of the students, to see the hearty way in which they join in the service and the numbers in which they attend it. If this enthusiasm be continued...
There is nothing worthy of much comment on the upper two miles, until we come to the start, which is directly opposite the Harvard quarters. The starting point is in the middle of a great bed of eel grass, about which we have heard so much. The grass seems to grow very luxuriantly in this especial place, lying in great masses all over the surface of the river. But notwithstanding everything said about it, it really doesn't stop a boat very much, the main inconvenience being the difficulty one has in rowing his oar. About three-eighths...
...every effort is made to induce graduates to subscribe to the enterprise. We trust that the proposed plans may be carried out successfully, and that Yale will be enabled hereafter to enjoy all the advantages in athletic training which we have been more fortunately allowed. We have long heard complaints from New Haven of the disadvantages which Yale athletes are forced to overcome in their work. We are pleased that at last circumstances seem to promise an equality of athletic privileges to both Harvard and Yale...