Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which our nine plays matches, asking them if they will forbid the nines of their respective colleges to play games with professional clubs, in case Harvard takes the initiative in that direction. Affirmative answers have been received from all the colleges addressed, except Yale, and she has not been heard from at all. A favorable answer is expected, however, from her also, in which case the nine will not be allowed to play any games with professional clubs. The second matter taken up by the committee was the advisability of allowing athletes to have a "professional" trainer. In considering this...
...meals in the dining hall; breakfast is supplied there from 8 to 9, lunch from 12 to 3, and dinner, which is, of course, a general meal, at 6. Tea is sent to the students' own rooms; about 4 o'clock the cheerful rattling of teacups is heard in the corridors, and announces the arrival of the servants with a large trayful of cups. These trays are taken round to all the students' rooms, and also to the lecture-rooms, where the combination of tea and study forms a peculiar feature of Girton lectures. Four o'clock is an important...
...Tuesday evening into No. 31 Weld, on the ground floor in the north entry, occupied by Mr. Sherman Hoar, '82. A pane of glass was broken out, and through this aperture it was made possible to unlock the sash and raise the window and enter. A neighbor says he heard a slight crash of glass about 11.30 P. M., when, it is supposed, the intruder entered. But, curiously and fortunately enough, Mr. Hoar has as yet been unable to discover that any property was stolen, though some disarrangement of things was noticed...
...through lack of time, to give the course of lectures on Buddhism announced in the catalogue. This subject has, of late, been receiving special attention among scholars, and the results of their investigations would be of great interest just now to the great majority of students. Every one who heard Prof. Lanman's lectures on the Vedas last year will well understand what he has lost by the omission this year of this course on Buddhism. We are glad to see that the course is announced for next year, and hope that we shall not again be disappointed...
...generation of Englishmen that the famous university men of fifty years ago, whom they constantly hear praised, had not the smallest tincture of science, The Oxford men - Newman, Manning and Arnold - knew nothing of it. The Cambridge man, Darwin, when at school, which was a principal feeder of Cambridge, heard his pursuits described by the head master as the cultivation of 'stinks' - which, indeed, became the popular university term for them." - [St. James' Gazette...