Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unable to compete with the doctor of to-day. Mental power and scholarly attainment, while they are demanded more and more in all professions, seem to be especially demanded nowadays in the profession of medicine. Would-be doctors may well attend the lecture to-night, and may expect to hear something worth hearing from one who has had the experience of Dr. Edes...
...Haven and Princeton, it is to be hoped that he will be able to come the comparatively short distance to Cambridge. Gen. Walker has not spoken at Harvard for several years, and we hope that an opportunity will be afforded the many students of Political Economy to hear this well-known speaker...
...good sized audience filled Sever 6 last evening to hear Mr. Hamilton's prize dissertation on "Boniface, the Apostle to the Germans." Mr. Hamilton began with a brief review of the general condition of Europe in the eighth century. Society was imbued with the rankest spirit of barbarism. There was no security from the lawless bands of robbers. Pillage drove all who had any feelings of duty to the monasteries and cloisters. The glory of Rome as a nation was gone and the bishop of Rome saw an opportunity to raise a powerful church out of the ruins...
...fair sized audience met in Sever 11 last evening to hear Dr. Farnham's lecture on Health and Strength. The lecture was as follows...
...accomplish this object, one change among others seems necessary in this service - to omit all extemporaneous prayer. If the student goes to pray, he must not be exposed to the caprices of any individual; he must not be waiting to hear what he is to pray for; he must be borne along by a familiar service which gives utterance to the primary, daily needs of every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring...