Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of theories have been advanced as to the reason of these remarkable sunsets. The exact cause will probably never be known, but it is interesting to hear the various ways in which the phenomenon is explained. Electricity is one theory for no apparent reason, except that it seems to be the custom of the present age when anything in nature is entirely unaccountable to attribute it to electricity. Another startling theory is that our planet is passing through the tail of a comet, but this does not seem to be plausible as no nucleus...
...German Universities. Every winter we have several good readings from the classics given by the instructors in those departments for students and outsiders, and some lectures by prominent strangers visiting or travelling in this part of the state; but these are about all. It is seldom that we hear any authoritative statements on the practical questions of so much interest to a large class of students. Much is taught about some of these subjects in the various courses but this instruction is necessarily confined...
...would be no more difficult for the college to arrange such a course than to arrange the classical readings in Sever 11. Should they not see fit to undertake such a project, then one of the numerous special societies, Historical Society, Finance Club, and others, of which we hear so little in public, might bring their forces together and persuade the professors to lecture under their auspices. It is certainly worth a trial and a successful effort in that direction would meet with the hearty approbation which it deserves...
...conclusion we must repeat our complaint which seems to remain unheeded by Mr. Henschel that the programmes are not satisfactory as regards the solidity of the main selection. We have had enough experiment of modern symphonies, and would like to hear a good rendering of a Beethoven symphony before the end of this short series...
...view of their work. The care of the bodily health is of the first importance. More educated men fail of distinction through the want of bodily vigor than from any other cause. The high prizes in any of the professions are not to be won without exhausting labor. We hear much talk about genius. All this is very well in its way, but the most practical definition of genius is, extraordinary capacity for labor. No world-wide greatness was ever achieved except where there has been a prodigious capacity for work...