Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasant to hear of improvement in the governing policy and in the undergraduate aspirations of other colleges. It is natural too that the larger institutions in affording a wider opportunity for the existence of varied social elements, should be the first to swerve from some of the intensely conservative and now antiquated restrictions of the past. Moreover, for this reason, it would be surprising indeed if Yale, Princeton and Columbia were not ready to help in leading toward the larger life of the university of the future. Columbia, while not opening her doors freely to women, has been among...
...large audience was assembled night before last in Boylston Hall to hear the first lecture of Professor Frothingham on Assyrian language...
...practice of it that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were), they altogether for, get that we should like to hear the instructor's words, even though we lose the pleasure and profit of our friends' conversation. Let them not scorn us but pity us and aid us to reach their intellectual eminence...
...soon as her guests had departed, however, and while she was sweeping the house in her every day clothes, she began to hear horrid things which were said about her on all sides. People seemed bound to be disagreeable to her because they were jealous...
...freshmen have organized a banjo club consisting of four banjos, three guitars and three mandolins. The playing of the club is said to be exceptionally fine. If this be true, the college will be pleased to hear from '90 in this respect...