Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...goodly number of friends of the students. The judges were Messrs. Barrett Wendell, Augustus H. Vogel, George Morison and W. R. Tyler; John O. Holden acted as timekeeper. The prizes were silver medals and pewter cups. The following-named were the successful competitors: One-hundred yard dash, A. A. Heard - time, 11 3/4 sec.; base-ball throw, H. F. McIntire, 272 feet; mile run, C. F. Ayer, 5 min. 38 sec.; long jump, W. S. Allen, 16 feet 7 1/2 inches; 220-yard dash, E. T. Hoyt, Jr., 29 sec.; foot-ball kick, G. T. Westland, 119 feet; quarter-mile...
...orchestra chairs. With a fearful and blushing consciousness of their own wickedness, about forty very meek and very proper freshmen from time to time during the performance furtively glanced around, and beheld the eyes of some fifteen or twenty upper class men narrowly watching them. Not a sound was heard, however, but silently and stealthily, at the close of the performance, these freshmen glided from the scene of their terrible orgy, and emerged under the frosty starlight of Scollay square. With loudly beating hearts, forty freshmen took up their line of march for Cambridge bridge. There their courage failed. With...
...reading, is not a very heavy tax upon a man when it is all for his own personal profit, and, if we come to the point, we generally are willing to acknowledge by our senior year that we have spent a great many hours to no purpose. We have heard it said that only freshmen attend these lectures. If so, even they go in remarkably small numbers and at long intervals, when we consider how attractive the opportunity is. With a programme which seldom repeats itself, and with such a list of lecturers, it is a mystery...
...done so in October after it had all been explained. It was probably forwarded in haste by a few of the signers, who did not consult the others but took it for granted that their sentiments were the same as when it was signed and before Harvard had been heard from...
...plays then in progress, "By the way, Mr. Warren, while I was in New York I went to see Jefferson as Bob Acres in the 'Rivals.' Jefferson himself was, of course, as good as ever, but he was supported very badly." "Ah, yes," answered Mr. Warren, "I have heard that the 'Rivals' was being presented in New York, with 'Sheridan twenty miles away...