Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Thursday evening the Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert of the year in Sanders Theatre. Many care for instrumental music enough to enjoy these concerts, but frankly are too lazy to give a Friday afternoon in order to hear one of the concerts at Symphony Hall. When the best music this country can offer is brought to our very doors, no possible excuse for not attending can be made by a man who pretends to enjoy good music...
...every member of the community; yet it is often a matter of considerable doubt whether some of the arguments advanced in favor of this or that candidate are really expressions of opinion in its true sense. Do the condemnations of one Presidential nominee, or the eulogisms which we hear heaped (or heap ourselves) on his rival, arise in all instances from a mature judgment of both sides of the case? Do we not find ourselves holding opinions to which we are directed by emotional feeling rather than by careful reasoning...
...extensive experience in newspaper and magazine work, having contributed to the Atlantic Monthly and the World's Work, as well as the daily presses of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington, Boston and New York. He professes unusual ideas on the teaching of English composition, so that literary candidates may expect to hear some unusual advice...
...occasionally to Ft. de Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock in one of the Frenchmen who said: 'It isn't the shell you can hear you want to duck for, it's the one you can't hear that will cause the trouble.' When one sees Frenchmen of two years' experience dropping and ducking on hearing the whistle of a shell, one has no compunctions at all in following suit...
Hunt Wentworth '17, president of the Lampoon, speaking from the depths of experience, gave the Freshman some sage advice as to what not to do. "Don't believe all you hear," he said, "and don't pick the wrong course"--the right course being, according to him, the Lampoon competition...