Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work of the elocution department to arouse greater interest, not only in the Boylston prize speaking, but in the study of elocution. Several of the competitors last evening showed themselves to be speakers of great power, a few of high polish. Little of the traditional declamation was heard. It seemed that at last the idea of the best conveyance of the speaker's thoughts and not an independent exercise of his lungs, was the prime idea of declama tion. And yet there is danger in too great an effort to attain naturalness when much of the higher power of declamation...
...that many of the present seeming evils will be remedied. But we feel sure that whatever action is taken on this subject, after a meeting of the conference committee, a feeling of satisfaction and submission will pervade the college, inasmuch as the student side of the question has been heard and carefully weighed. The expressed intention of the committee from the faculty to widen the field of debate in the meeting of this conference, and to include beside athletics such questions as the marking and examination systems, scholarship and college discipline, presents a still more hopeful prospect. The success...
Boston University, although our nearest neighbor, is as little known to the students of Harvard as many of our Western colleges. The university is situated in the heart of Boston, and this, perhaps, is one reason why so little is heard of it among the students. It does not support a crew or a nine, and it was only last year that a 'Varsity eleven was selected. There are many departments in the university which are fully as flourishing as the School of Liberal Arts, the collegiate department. It has a large medical school, one of the first law schools...
...controversies of this kind, it is easy to see that the student searching after the truth is often at fault. In the lectures, however, which we have recently heard on the controversy, their faults have been reduced to a minimum, and the students of the university have had a fair opportunity of judging of the relative merits of the arguments advanced by Prof. Thompson, and Mr. Godkin...
...outburst of sound caught her ear, and woke her up again. From the pineclad forests of Maine to the billowy praries of the boundless West; from the frozen confines of the region where the Bates Student pipes its lay to the faraway abode of the Kansas University Review, she heard a swelling chorus resounding in her praise. All her contemporaries were saying nice things about her. The Delaware College Review declared that the Advocate was full of interesting reading. The Virginia University Magazine affirmed that it almost wanted to send the Advocate the price of subscription. And, therefore...