Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...come as near to that as possible. They usually wore what, in the present parlance of the prize ring, would be termed "bard" gloves, often with the addition of brass knuckles. The wrestling was correspondingly rough, and, in regard to the running, we have often heard of the men who dropped dead at the end of their race. The Greeks used to run at an alarming speed. As far as we can tell from the records, they made their longest run, three miles, in about ten minutes, and they were accustomed to make a running jump, with dumb-bells...
...class work - and it was hoped that those members of the class who were so unfortunate as to loss their negatives by fire would come forward at once and furnish other sittings. A number have done so, but there are a few from whom the committee has not yet heard. We cannot urge these men too strongly to make appointments at the studio at once, for the time is fast passing in which the athletes and views must be taken. All who have made sittings and are satisfied with pictures thus far secured, will please make known the same...
Through the kindness of the professors in the Greek and Latin departments, opportunities have been offered for hearing the classics read. On questions of exercise and hygiene we have heard many good lectures and received good advice. Now why cannot this system of lecturing be carried out in other subjects? All of us would enjoy this kind of instruction in French, German, Natural History, Fine Arts and other such important subjects. As we are denied the advantages of study in the Harvard Observatory, under the able men who control it, we would especially appreciate evening lectures, by which we might...
...independent, self-reliant spirit which has grown up at Harvard, partly as a result of the liberal policy by which the government of the university has intrusted to the students the regulation of their own conduct, is less heard of than its rival, "Harvard indifference," but it exists for all that. When men are treated like men instead of like children they begin to feel and act like men. The two great students' organizations, the Harvard Dining Association and the Harvard Co-operative Society, are evidences that the Harvard undergraduate is pretty well able to take care of himself...
...correspondent of the Hartford Courant writes, commenting on Josiah Quincy's "Figures of the Past:" "There are many anecdotes of Mr. Quincy's wit and readiness of retort among us. One of these which perhaps your readers have not heard relates to his remark to his father, the president of Harvard College, when he (the younger Quincy) was elected president of the Massachusetts Senate. 'You preside over boys,' said he, 'but I over...