Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...audience of about one hundred was present in Sever 11 yesterday afternoon, to hear Dr. Sargent's fourth lecture on "Exercise - How and When to take it." The lecturer began with a few remarks explanatory of the waste and renewal of muscular tissue and of its dependence upon the amount of exertion, both physical and mental, to which the human frame is subjected. The best result is obtained from exercise when the body is in a state of perspiration, as then the blood is rushing more rapidly through the veins, the action of the heart is quicker and the energy...
Divinity Chapel was comfortably well filled last evening by those assembled to hear Mr. Justin Winsor's lecture on the "Function of a Library in a Community of Professional Students." Our libraries, said Mr. Winsor, are yet in a transition state, although a marked improvement has taken place in the past century. The people are beginning to realize the value of a library as a leading agent in the education of the masses, and the result is that the restrictions which marked its earlier stages have been to a great extent done away with. Although the collections...
...grief, and more than this, it purifies the thoughts of the people. I was interested in the ministrations of this temple, so I collected cash for the bell. Ni-or-ai says: "All my sorrow is expressed by the voice of the bell. When the wicked ones in hell hear its sound they forget for a time their torments, and, confessing their sins, pray to be received into Heaven. It also causes the devils to flee." This caused me to have Ko-ga-wa make this bell in memory of many rejoicing believers...
WHILE I was knocking about among the California and Nevada mining camps, fascinated by this feverish life, I chanced to hear of Bodie, "the latest strike," as they called it. Not far from Mono Lake, in the great desert that lies to the east of the Sierra Nevadas, and more than a hundred miles through the sand from the nearest base of supplies, some one had found a rich deposit of gold. At once miners, merchants, gamblers, and all the male and female floating population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose...
Then we drew near the top. We could hear the creaking of the wooden cranks, and the panting breath of the men. At last we stopped. Great brown arms reached down and seized...