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Word: hearse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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It may easily be computed that the average undergraduate hears during the course of a year from 250 to 750 lectures. Adding to these the number of entertainments, concerts, and theatrical performances of a more or less intellectual sort attended during the year, the figures may well approach 1000. We...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "OPEN TO THE PUBLIC." | 3/12/1908 | See Source »

Any objection to this state of affairs is met by the reply that if it were not for these outside people the lecturer or the musicians would have but a slender audience. We are 10th to admit this. For we believe that many a student is kept away because he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "OPEN TO THE PUBLIC." | 3/12/1908 | See Source »

Such is then the first message of religion to an eager, forward-looking, undiscouraged, modern life--the message of expansion, liberty, spaciousness, hope. The normal healthy life hears the summons to go forward and welcomes the guide who opens the door. What is it to live but to pass from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON | 6/19/1905 | See Source »

When soiled with noble dust he hears

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORGANIZED CHEERING | 6/3/1904 | See Source »

But from the players' and coaches' point of view I have never much believed in the value of organized cheering. In the first place, any player knows that he never hears any cheering except when it interferes with his hearing something else that he wants to hear. Whether or not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORGANIZED CHEERING | 6/3/1904 | See Source »

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