Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compulsion would not work to the spiritual injury of these undergraduates. On the other hand, there are students who are led by this compulsory system to avoid religious services through their whole lives after graduation. They are represented by the graduate who declared that in four years he had heard enough prayers and sermons to last a lifetime, and that he would never again put his head inside a church. Would it not be better to incline such students toward religious observances by example and persuasion than to repel them by compulsion...
...Brahms symphony was heard in Cambridge for the first time. Though from the hands of a composer who has the reputation of being generally dry, abstruse and uninteresting, it certainly gave the impression of being a melody of romance, beauty, and anything but dry. Its themes are short and graceful; but it is needless to say that they are developed with all the resources and skill of the musician's art. The orchestra under Herr Gericke's excellent leadership, mastered its difficulties easily. The soloist was Miss Emma Juch. She is well known to Boston and Cambridge musical people...
...game is demoralizing to the spectators mainly through its brutality; unfair play they usually fail to recognize. We often heard cries of "kill him." "break his neck" "slug him," "hit him," "knock him down," from those around...
...students who have had practical experience in these matters-experience which the Committee have not enjoyed. We are not prejudiced against the Committee and their work, nor are we blind to existing abuses. But we are the "party of the second part," the ones concerned, and wish to be heard...
...played by the Memorial waiters. Indeed, instead of having any trouble in finding something worth taking, I am often at a loss to decide where I can best turn my attention. One of the pleasantest of my winter amusements is photographing Snodkin's rooms, the ones that we have heard so much about lately. They are easy to take and are so varied that they cannot become tiresome. All the signs can be read in the photograph as clearly as in the original, and snob. is forever sending the pictures to his fair friends, who wonder what on earth...