Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to thank the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality for their open-air concert. To say that it was a grand success and enjoyed is not necessary. Is there any reason why we cannot hear the Glee. Club and Pierian once a week from now on till the end of the year? These clubs must know how their concerts are appreciated, and ought to give us every opportunity they can to listen to their music. We understand that next Monday night the Glee Club will serenade the Princeton Nine, which plays with us in the afternoon. If the singing...
...three, unconscious how "the gods made mock at us," sat late into the starlight night, and no one could know that our hearts were not at peace. I can hear the light laughter of more than one happy group of people on that piazza yet; so great a part does commonplace play in this life of ours...
...forget the difference in time. You must remember that, though this is the 19th century all over the universe, yet we, being an infinite distance west of the earth, hear of every thing there several centuries before the actual occurance. We are three hundred years ahead of their time; while Minus Infinity, the same distance on the other side of the earth, is three centuries behind the time on earth. This occasioned a laughable error at Minus Infinity a few centuries ago. We had just found out that the world was coming to an end in the 25th century...
...circled with stately dignity before my fair spectator. "How imposing this must be!" thought I. "What sentiments of admiration she must feel!" At that moment I was just opposite them. "Oh, how he cleaves the air!" It was her soft voice. How sweet! But what did I hear? The sound of their united laughter? Did they mock me? My blood curdled. I'd show them whether I could cleave the air. I could have cleft the earth to have plunged them both therein. My indignation breathed new energy into my wearied frame. A reckless, frenzy seized me. In rapid alternation...
...glad to hear that in addition to the pictures of the various athletes who have represented Harvard in the past, the meeting-room in the new Gymnasium will also contain a record of our College's progress in track athletics, in the shape of tablets similar in style to those now in the rowing-room, commemorating the different class races. A separate tablet will be devoted to each event, and at the head of the list will be the first record made at Harvard at the game; and the record of every time it has since been improved...