Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the football candidates held in the Varsity Club on Tuesday night, eighty candidates, the largest number that have ever reported for Spring practice, heard Coach Fisher announce April 21 as the date for spring football to begin, the practice to last three weeks...
...tribute and affection, President Eliot had been sitting very straight in his chair with a serene smile of happiness on his face. As he got up to make his speech of response, the audience again rose to its feet, and only after several minutes could he make himself heard above the clapping and applause. Then he stepped forward on the platform, and with his hands clasped before him, spoke in a quiet, restrained voice...
...fact that the hundreds of testimonies which reached me come from persons who are complete strangers to me and always have been, from persons with whom, according to their stories I never had any direct contact. They tell me that their careers have been determined by something they heard me say at a public meeting in their town, or by a passage in my writings which early attracted their attention. It is a delightful part of my experience today that I can try to imagine how diffused my influence has been for more than 50 years past, yes, 60 years...
Describing President Eliot at his in augural Professor Emerton '71, writing in the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine," says, "His commanding figure, erect and alert, his noble voice, once heard never to be forgotten, the persuasive authority of his manner, free then as always from all elocutionary trickery, the forceful simplicity of his language, all combined to produce upon us the sense of a new era about to dawn...
...have worked with or under him, all who have seen his work, all who have heard of his achievements and there are few who have not long ago realized the value of his work to the causes of scholarship, education, intellectual independence and intelligent citizenship. They have selected this occasion to express together that realization...