Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young man was recently heard to ask an instructor "why they were called sickly dactyls...
...come to replenish her treasury and to keep up her numbers; and yet, if we are not mistaken, the present policy in retaining President Bartlett is gradually bringing on these results. It is not alone in Boston, Springfield, Manchester and New York city that expressions of this nature are heard among her alumni, but also in the West - in Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis. It is easier to tear down than to build up; easier to turn aside to other institutions the current of students and means than to set it back in the old channel...
DEAR HERALD : I have heard so much lately about that much-abused institution, sneeringly called the modern girl, that I just want to say a few things about her myself. I don't know whether it is "all put on" or not, but do you know that the very ones who talk the most slightingly about that "flimsy creachaw, you know," are the ones who are constantly trying to catch the "wegulah buttah-fly," and who usually get nothing for their labors but - left...
...conclusion of the responsive reading in chapel a few morning since a senior, whose prayer cuts have been used up was heard to remark, "I wish I were David the son of Jesse." The last verse of the psalm was. "The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended...
...showing our appreciation of the Glee Club's work. They are said occasionally to visit neighboring town in conjunction with the Pierian Sodality to give concerts, but never sing in Boston or other places accessible to the mass of students. At other colleges the glee clubs are frequently heard, and give several concerts at least a year, besides making extended trips from city to city. Thus the Princeton club has visited New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore this winter, and we have had the pleasure of hearing the Yale concert in Boston. On the other hand, the managers of our clubs...