Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of the storm only a fair audience gathered last evening to hear the last of the series of lectures on Assyria Archaeology. The subject of the lecture was the influence of Assyrian and Babylonia on the art of the surrounding nations, and the effect felt to some extent by these countries themselves from their intercourse with other countries...
...glad to hear it: It is probable that new dormitories will soon be erected at Harvard. They are to have all the newest steam heating appliances and a bath room, with hot and cold water, attached to each set of rooms. - Yale News...
...Elocution at this University. Mr. Hayes while here gave several public readings, and on every occasion proved himself possessed of rare elocutionary and dramatic power. His reading of the Midsummer Night's Dream with orchestral accompaniament will be long remembered by all who had the good fortune to hear him. As a humorous and dialect reader Mr. Hayes stands almost unrivalled. Everywhere he has received the highest praise and has met with the most flattering success. Mr. Hayes will read at Library Hall on the evening of Feb. 4th. The reading will be a miscellaneous one, including dramatic, narrative...
...Chrysalis state as "a college" into "the higher life" of the university is now supplemented by the report that for some time the university has been busying herself in the acquisition of new lands and buildings with the purpose of enlarging her academical domains. We are doubly pleased to hear thus early of the beneficient results of President Dwight's administration. But we sincerely hope that that beneficence will not end at the purchase of buildings and lands. Now that Yale is "really and truly" a university, hope is cherished on every side that her curriculum will prove the reality...
...study of "City Government in Philadelphia." The second was by Senator Dawes, who at a public meeting of the seminary last December most clearly and forcibly presented his views on the Indian question. Ever since the formation of the department has it been the privilege of the students to hear prominent men lecture. Such historians as Freeman and Bryce of England and Von Holst of Germany, such American educators as Francis A. Walker and the Rev. J. Lewis Diman, for many years before his death Professor of History in Brown University, have in years past helped by their words...