Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...struggle for marks; if this change be too radical, let rank depend upon daily work. And the names of those whom the Faculty wished to honor could be printed on "rank-lists," not arranged in the order of one-twelfth of a per cent, but alphabetically. Then we might hear less about "leading" the class, and more about men who have clear ideas upon important topics of the times; we might have fewer bookworms and more students; and we might have a larger attendance at University concerts and lectures. Should we not, by such a change, gain in average standing...
...week has passed; hear the sequel of my vision...
...hear the drip of rain...
...hear the accounts of my folly and strife...
...think I shall room alone next year. Jack is a mighty pleasant fellow, and all that, you know, but I can't stand his love. He does n't make any secret of it, so perhaps you'd like to hear how he goes on. His favorite way is to go to the drawer where he keeps his treasures, and bring out some decayed peony or number eight glove, and then to fall into a rhapsody over it. "This glove, Tom, was Minnie's. I met her that summer I spent at the seaside. She was my beau-ideal...