Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will come under; and while there is a great gain when a man conscientiously chooses a subject without regard to its softness, still there is much lacking if he does not realize that a poor instructor in the best of courses may do him harm. How often we have heard students say of a certain course that they learned absolutely nothing in it, and that it was time thrown away to attend the recitations. While there is much exaggeration in their statement, there is nevertheless much truth as well. Perhaps nothing is so tedious to a young mind...
Fresh. No. 1, (running up to F. No, 2.) "Say, Smith, I've just heard the strangest thing! I can't really believe...
...have heard that we have only one day for a Thanksgiving recess; don't even have the Friday and Saturday following! Why, it just breaks me all up! I was going home, and supposed of course we'd have till the next Monday anyway...
...thought my head had gone too- I put my hands up, it is my head, still there, thank heaven! But I have no reason to rejoice, for when I left home that night as the last buckle of my armor was being girded on, I heard a voice as if from the depths of Thayer saying, "Return with our plug or without your skull." There was no mistaking it. I had lost the former and retained the latter. I became desperate: a Freshman stands before me with an uninjured prize upon his head. I rush at him; he perceives...
...soloist was Mr. Sherwood, who played the great Schubert fantasia magnificently, overcoming the technical difficulties with apparent ease. His strength was scarcely equal to some of the heaviest passages with the orchestra, but the exquisite sentiment of the last part was beautifully brought out. The symphony which was heard here for the first time, has little in it of interest; it is unmelodious in its themes, and on the whole tedious. The andante was the most enjoyable movement. The work is written in the most advanced modern fashion, but the final effect is rather one of noise with...