Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Farnham's thirteenth lecture on "Health and Strength" came last evening. The fact that the audiences which have assembled to hear Mr. Farnham have not in any appreciable degree fallen off since the first lecture is sufficient evidence of the interest that the college feels in the matter of health and strength. The whole course of lectures has been valuable because it has afforded instruction in a subject that if too often neglected by college...
...sorry to hear of a serious breach of courtesy among the students in Chemistry I, for it is only by this name that we can designate the whistling which fills the air of the laboratory in the presence of the instructor. The hours of laboratory work ought to be regarded much in the same light as lectures or recitations, and the same decorum ought to be preserved which everybody seems bound to observe in the lecture room. Besides the lack of courtesy toward the instructor, this habit of whistling seriously hinders men doing their work in a careful manner...
...nine minutes after seven last evening Sever 11 was filled with an audience of residents of Cambridge and students eager to hear Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., lecture on "The Management of Railroads as a Profession for College Graduates...
...giving moral guidance to Harvard men is to shut them up in a large room, and force it into their unwilling minds, the lessons will be of little use. Is it not plain that moral teaching gets its strength, not from the fact that men are made to hear it, but from the fact that they are willing to receive it? In Dr. Hale's own words, - "no one was ever compelled to pray, or ever can be." We urge, therefore, with the deepest sincerity, that moral teaching is of value only when it is offered to men freely...
...needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully awake to the important questions of the day. And there is no better way to waken us than to get us to think upon such matters for ourselves; lectures move us comparatively little, because we hear them passively; but if some such incentive as a prize stirs us thoroughly, we will be very likely to hold our interest even to the future. Accordingly, we hope that attention to the subject of Civil Service Reform can be excited here as it has been in Indiana University...