Word: heard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hardly be called completely articulate. Frank Dazey's "Sonnet" is the best piece of verse in the number. As for the "Song" by Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow, it is written in what, I fear, the author supposed to be Scots dialect. It is about a little boy who heard a robin sing, and apparently died. In any case, when the robin came back from the south, it came alone. British robins, it is true, do not go south in winter; and in general the natural history of the poem is as little impeccable as the dialect. But what one wants...
...lack of smoothness of oral expression, the student can plead inexperience as an excuse with better justice than his instructor, since the latter has more opportunities for class-room practice than the most talkative of his students. But on those few occasions when the student must make himself heard in the class-room, he can plead no excuse except inadequate lungs when he fails to make his utterance, if not vociferous, at least audible...
Professor Henri Bergson is one of the world's greatest living philosophers. His lecture will be of especial interest to those who have heard the recent addresses of Professor Rudolf Eucken here; for both of these great philosophers, who have lately aroused a great interest in the student world, have something in common...
Every member who can possibly attend should hear Professor Perry speak in the Union this evening. The speaker needs no introduction. Those who have had the pleasure of studying under him know his charm well. Any who heard him when he spoke in the Union last May will be glad to repeat the experience...
...absorbing questions at previous Forums it is true that the number of men attending has been no greater, but that is beside the point. Last evening's Forum presumably brought out all the pros and cons of the hockey-as-a-major-sport question. The Student Council members have heard them, and should consider them. But they should not consider the vote of 49 to 20 especially in hockey's favor. Rather they should wonder where the active undergraduate interest in hockey is, when at a vastly important meeting 49 men are present to support...