Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indignant Yale undergraduate on the "senior society evil" at that college. We await the next number of the Nation with interest, feeling sure that the angry replies will be numerous. The subject of the Yale societies is a very troublesome one just at present. Frame time to time, we hear of some distinguished graduate who attacks these societies of his alma mater and who ridicules the customs to which they give rise. We, at Harvard, have long made a standing joke of the air of mystery which attaches to all the numerous pins which decorate the waistcoats of our Yale...
...European, and the almost infinite number of "Free schools" attached to the public fountains and maintained by the same charitable foundation as the fountain. Every visitor to Cairo is familiar with these. Passing a fountain at almost any time of the day, he will be pretty sure to hear from the building connected with it the babel of many infantile voices, pitched in all keys, and on looking in at the open door, he will see a confused mass of little human bodies squatted on the floor, rocking back and forth in well-kept measure, and repeating, parrot-like...
Boylston Hall was crowded last night by the audience assembled to hear Mr. Muybridge lecture on "Animal Motion." Remarking that he usually made some preparation when intending to deliver an address, but that in this case before an audience so capable of criticism he would not presume to do so, Mr. Muybridge proceeded to take up the much disputed question of the different positions assumed by a horse in motion. By means of the instantaneous system of photography the lecturer had obtained a series of views of a moving horse, which gave correctly every attitude, and which have settled conclusively...
...issue we printed an abstract of a lecture by Pres. Porter of Yale which illustrates what we wish. There are dozens of topics which come up every day outside the class room which interest the students and nothing would be pleasanter or more appropriate than for them to hear these questions discussed by members of the college corps of instructors. Surely there are numbers of professors in our faculty who would attract large audiences in any other place and there is no reason why they should not attract audiences in Cambridge. We urge the Historical Society or the Finance Club...
...next theme in English 5 will be upon Mathew Arnold, Professor Hill advises all the members of the section to hear him feature if possible...