Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...marks for the semi-annual examination have been given out in most of the courses. History 1, 2 and Sophomore Rhetoric remain to be heard from...
...enough colleges to give them binding force. Meanwhile the students, we presume, are expected to occupy an attitude of doubtful patience. We are not aware that conference or co-operation with them has been proposed, notwithstanding the obvious arguments in favor of such a course. Indeed we have heard it stated that some votes in the faculty were cast in favor of the regulations, at the time of their first consideration, under the impression that they were earnestly desired by a large majority of the students. This impression we hope the recent mass meeting has corrected. We are also...
...music. A large number of students able to appreciate good music have but few chances to hear it during the college term, and one or two organ or piano recitals would be greatly appreciated by them. Moreover, many works of the old composers, especially Bach and Handel, are never heard nowadays, for the poor reason that they are of too slight account to bring before the modern audience, who, satiated with the music of the future, and "that thing of terror," a modern symphony or rather gymnastic exercise for the instruments in the orchestra, would scorn the simple writing...
Bowdoin will reject the athletic resolutions. Columbia, Williams and Wesleyan have yet to be heard from, and Princeton. Harvard, Cornell and Stevens have accepted them...
...eradicates gradually from its members the petty prejudices which too often vex the souls of undergraduates. Starting on a higher plane and with a more exacting standard than other clubs, its course thus far promises a future more splendid and useful than any other predecessors or contemporaries. I have heard complaints from within and without that its rules were too strict and exclusive. But I do not hesitate to say that I hope they will never be modified. And this, not be cause I am a snob, but because I appreciate more and more every day the practical value...