Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This feeling of recoil, even of hatred, is human enough to be easily comprehensible, but does its stimulation into a frenzy hasten or retard our war-making and is it, therefore, to be encouraged or discouraged? We fail to see how an American, by refusing to hear an orchestra play the music of Mozart or Beethoven, either spites or weakens the Kaiser or adds a bit to our fighting strength. Why not keep our energies within effective channels. --Boston Advertiser...
...Yale. He has been President Hadley's adjutant in making important developments. He must be given more than a slight share of the credit which is due the Yale faculty for the college's part in military preparation. More pertinent, he is a man whom Yale undergraduates like to hear speak. Thus if there are any Nathaniels in the Class of 1921 who ask: "Can any good thing come out of New Haven?" the CRIMSON hastens to reply: "Come to Smith Halls Common Room tonight...
These meetings are held every fall under the auspices of Phillips Brooks House in order to enable the Freshmen to hear a number of distinguished men. The series of addresses for 1917 is nearly at an end, and it is probable that only two or three more such meetings will be held...
...tonight the University assembles to hear Dr. Mott's talk. We do not have to tell the 'student body how essential it is that every one be present; this is the most important assembly we have had since President Lowell addressed us at the outbreak of the War. It is not a question of trying to be present; the meeting must be attended in as great numbers as we can possibly muster. To hear Dr. Mott is the chance of a lifetime. Dr. Mott is an international figure: a man who knows the War and understands...
...mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells go singing and hurtling through the air over our heads, and the regular answer of the German sheels, seeking out the English batteries, whining past us and then exploding with a loud report, throwing high into the air great columns of earth and smoke. Further and further...