Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What will our friends that walk leisurely to the morning, noon, and afternoon lectures with glowing pipe in mouth, say, when they hear that no tobacco could be used "unless permitted by the President with the consent of parents and guardians and on good reason first given by a physician"? Or can any one conceive of the Bursar's frame of mind, if some of us with a love for antiquity were to revert to an ancient custom of our fathers and pay our term bills in kind instead of in cash? What bliss to see him enter "butter, cheese...
After the services were over in chapel last evening, a great number of people stayed to hear the rehearsal of the anniversary chorus, for to-day's exercises...
...inclined to doubt the truth of the old adage that "man should eat to live and not live to eat" when we consider yesterday's alumni dinner. When one can eat at the same board with such men as sat in Memorial Hall on November 8, 1886, and hear such a flow of eloquence issue from their lips as then was heard, then he may boldly say that he has "lived to eat." It is not often that even a Harvard graduate may listen at once to after-dinner speeches by President Eliot, President Cleveland, Sir Lyon Playfair, Judge Devens...
...believe. We distrust the enthusiasm of faith. As we loose our ship from any mooring of the past, to sail into any great uncertain ocean of the future, we are more ready to listen to the malarial voices which cry to us from the shore "Begone! Begone!" than to hear the great deep, with its unbounded inspirations bidding us "Come on! Come on!" Who of us does not know this temper of our good mother, and of how sedulously she instills it in her children...
...Wednesday morning the members of the university, past and present, formed at the university and marched to the Heiliggeistkirche to hear the oration, the central literary feature of the jubilee, pronounced by Dr. Kuno Fisher. There is no more noted man in Heidelberg to-day than Kuno Fisher, and none whose works are better known in the United States. American students at Heidelberg are always partial to him, both because of his celebrity and because of his exceptionally clear and distinct pronunciation of his mother tongue. But still he is not to be recommended to the young beginner in German...