Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...flourishing condition. The object of the club is the free discussion of philosophical problems, and for this reason the number of members is necessarily rather small. The consequence is that, although the fortnightly meetings are well attended, are highly interesting to the members themselves, the students at large hear very little about the club, except in connection with its public lectures...
...fingers of his victim. A bulky and heavy sack, stained crimson, is silently brought to the river side at dead of night, and its contents are dropped noiselessly into the stream. What these contents are, let us not too curiously inquire. If the fishes leave anything, we shall probably hear of it from the officers of the Morgue. A dark, heavily veiled figure is pacing the Pont Neuf slowly and irresolutely. A human soul has been delivered over to the worm that dieth not. A sweet face is wan and pinched with agony; two wild eyes gaze down into...
...ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold at heart, and-come...
...next I remember I was running over a long straight road. The snow was under my feet and beating against me. Behind there were men following, silent and swift, while I could hear myself panting for breath. How the wind held me back! I knew they were gaining, yet I could not run faster. My feet seemed like lead. I only staggered over the ground. Still my pursuers came on. Now they were up with me. They were reaching out their hands...
...very glad to see by the notice which we publish this morning, that our contemporary, the Advocate, has obtained by far the larger part of the subscriptions desired; and we shall be still more pleased to hear, in a short time, that the entire number has been obtained, and that the bi-weekly journal of Harvard is again upon a sound financial basis. Our students do not, it is true, step forward with any too much readiness to support the college papers, but when once the true nature of the case is put before them, we do not have...