Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often hear our elders regret that we no longer live in that age of poetry in which they lived twenty or thirty years ago. No one can deny that there is not that atmosphere about us to-day that used to rouse the enthusiasm and stimulate the nobler aspirations of those who were young in the first half of this century. How many causes have wrought this change any one can tell who breathes the commercial air of America. But there are still among us men in whose power it lies to stir our sluggish blood, to broaden our ever...
...constitution of the new base-ball league admitting Columbia to an equal participation is hardly dry before we hear that college wants something more and this appears to be a share in the Yale-Harvard boat race. The following extract from the Globe of yesterday in speaking of the freshman race speaks for itself...
...hear much of the Harvard indifference; it could hardly be that no such carelessness should exist among us, for before a man gets the control of any department of interest - athletics, literature or anything else - a large fraction of his college life has passed. Hence, a quick succession of captains in the crews and nines, of editors-in-chief in the papers, and so there can be no fixed policy in the conduct of athletics or anything else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts...
...membership ticket. The fee is small, and a ticket entitles a member to attend all future athletic meetings. It is something which every man must possess sooner or later during his college course. The hours of the secretary are posted in all the dormitory entries, so we expect to hear that every man in '90 has been made a member of the H. A. A. before the date of the first winter meeting...
...other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge is a confession of the inability to acquire that knowledge here. Does it not seem as if this great western half of civilization might at least equal the eastern in its opportunities for learning? We hear almost daily of bequests for new colleges among us. Our people would almost seem to believe that our universities had reached their greatest height and the only thing left to do was to scatter them around more profusely. But no; in distribution of knowledge among all classes...