Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last Saturday's gymnasium meeting a lady was heard to remark that "the tug-of-war must tire the men dreadfully." As a general rule it makes a great many men very tired...
...undergraduates. It seems to me he does not go deep enough. If public opinion were not torpid on the subject, most of the cheating would stop at once; - few men would be willing to face the sure contempt of their friends even for forty per cent. A remark I heard lately, made by an upperclassman, is rather a striking illustration of how a good part of the college world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were done away with he thought "a good many nice fellows who cheat now would stop...
This evening Col. Douglas will deliver the third lecture of the course, given under the auspices of the Historical Society, in Sanders. His subject, "The Southern Volunteer," gives promise of an interesting discourse, and those who heard the lecture, two years ago, on "The Northern Volunteer." by Col. Livermore, will be able to make valuable comparisons. A portrayal of the soldier of the South in the recent war is sure to be instructive to an assemblage of Northern people. New impressions will doubtless be received, and false impressions are likely to be corrected...
Massachusetts was then in part a dormitory and the basement of Harvard was used for recitation rooms. Here James Russell Lowell heard classes and lectured on his favorite topics. In Holden, on warm days, the adhesive black-painted benches used to hold the students in fixed attention during lectures and render rapid departure impossible...
...seen carrying a drum which was left at the end of the Cambridge Common. After tea the Delta and its vicinity was not thronged, as usual on the first Monday evening, with students in their most ragged attire and with spectators. But erelong the sound of a drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major or grand marshal with a huge bearskin cap and baton, accompanied by assistants with craped staff and torches, and followed by two bass-drummers (students beating muffled drums); the elegist or chaplain, with his Oxford...