Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...authorities certainly seem to think that if men won't come to college to study, it is better that they should come to row and play ball than not to come at all, on the same principle that we encourage people who come to our churches to hear the music, if they won't come to hear the sermon. And it can be truly said that to these Harvard gives every opportunity of improving their physical constitution, if they won't take the advantages offered their mental powers. Mens sana in corpore sano, should be Harvard's second motto. With...
...committal "rot" and we at once appreciate the sphere which slang has come to assume in Harvard life. Our conversation would henceforth lose its elegance, its pungency, its accuracy. Yes, slang is prevalent at Harvard. It is in the class-room, the dormitory, on the field. You hear it on the river; in the gymnasium, - everywhere. But its use has such proportions that comment upon it is unexpected, and for any human power to abolish it is impossible...
...large audience assembled last evening in Sever 11 to hear Mr. John G. Brook's fourth and last lecture on Modern Socialism. It was the most interesting of the course; perhaps from the earnestness shown by the speaker, as well as from the subject matter itself...
...danger lies in their dense ignorance of the laws of political economy and of kindred sciences. That this ignorance exists may be clearly seen by a glance at statements, glaringly false, made in their best and most representative publications. In England laboring men have frequent opportunities to hear lectures from and to talk with men trained in the knowledge of these subjects. This is what is needed in America. Let practical economists come in contact with the organized laboring classes and teach them the fundamental principles of the science. The revolutionary socialist cannot help us. There is still time...
Yesterday afternoon a fair-sized audience assembled in Sever 11 to hear the first lecture of the course on "Health and Strength." Judging from the first the course will be of great interest and value to all. The doctor spoke in part, as follows: "My plan is, after two or three preliminary lectures, to take up the various systems of the body in order. We shall then be able to consider some of the causes which produce disease, and the means by which we may prevent the action of some of these causes. The constitution a person inherits will play...