Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale men did here. The fare has been reduced to a sum that is within the means of the majority of the class, and under the circumstances it is simply disgraceful that no more than twenty names have been signed in the book at Leavitt & Peirce's. Let us hear no more of conduct such as every right-minded student should blush to call his own, but let every man who has not an examination on Saturday, or who is not in a condition of absolute poverty, buy a ticket, go to New Haven, and cheer on the nine...
...conclusion, I may say I have the deepest respect for the gentleman with whom I have the honor to differ. But I also respect my classmates too much to hear them accused in silence...
...away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have heard the older men who succeeded in mitigating the uproar of the freshmen after the late boat races sneered at as officious. If there were 700 or 800 like them in college we should not hear much about officiousness. The majority now have matters absolutely in their own hands, it they will say their soul's their own. It will be a strange thing under the sun, if a thousand men of our race, to whom increased independence is offered, are so scared at the responsibility that...
...sorry to hear reports of dissatisfaction with the action of one of the class nines in the series which is now being played. Bulldozing is not generally considered as a part of a Harvard man's education, but the action of Monday surely tended very much in that direction. The honor of winning the class championship is hardly worth the odium which is likely to attend that event, if gained in the same way as was Monday's game...
...glad to hear at last of definite news from the prayer petitions. One of our editors asked Mr. McKengie at the close of the Overseer's meeting on Wednesday, what had been done about the petitions. He replied that they had been handed over for consideration to the five newly appointed preachers and the Plummer professor; that if they decided in favor of them - "and," he continued, "you may say from me, that they will undoubtedly be granted" - they would pass the Overseers with out any discussion; they would go into effect next year, and would probably be supplemented...