Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...command a small sum as an investment, in order that he may be a principle, a leading position is available, and an opportunity is offered for a name and a profitable life work. Technical newspaper training is not necessary. Idlers will please not write to us; we hope to hear from a young man who means business...
...farce, is one of the brightest of the small pieces written by Labiche, and if well put on cannot but be a success. There are five principal characters so it will need quite a number of men to make it a success. All who can should go tonight to hear it and see if there are parts which they think they could take. Upon the energy of the members of the society, depends the success of the spring theatricals...
...very glad to hear that the old Harvard oarsmen, at present members of the Boston Athletic Club, have organized an eight oared crew. The mere fact that the graduates feel so much interest in the success of the 'Varsity crew as to organize an eight for the purpose of giving the 'Varsity practice, is a source of encouragement and an incentive to hard work. And the practical value of such a crew will, we hope, be great. The Athletic club crew is composed entirely of men who have rowed in the 'Varsity boat in the past few years...
...large number were present in Sever 11 last evening to hear Professor A. A. Ripley lecture on "Goethe as Autobiographer." Germany, Professor Ripley said, now enjoys a national life and has a deep and dignified national literature, in which Goethe stands supreme. We must become acquainted with Goethe as a man, however, that we may know his true worth. With a view to the study of Goethe's life and works the Goethe society was organized. This society is engaged particularly in examining the manuscripts of Goethe, which, owing to the extinction of his family, have come into the possession...
...good-sized audience was in attendance at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to hear Professor Lyon's first lecture upon "Babylonian Books." The first part of the lecture was taken up with an account of the attempts that have been made from the early part of this century up to the present time for the excavation of ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have...