Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, Business School residents are further victimized. It seems that empty radiators have a tendency to transmit sound in an uncanny way and that many an innocent dweller on the fourth floor has been forced to listen in on first floor conversations which, if they do not startle him, are at least distracting. A typewriter creates havoc and it is rumored that radiators have here and there been loosened from the wall by the harangues prolonged into the small hours of the morning...
There are, nevertheless, a limited number of courses in which it is possible for the majority of undergraduates to listen to isolated lectures with benefit. Some of these the Student Vagabond mentions. But here again an obstacle presents itself, in that in a number of cases the professors themselves fail to notify the Vagabond of the subjects of their lectures. Patently in such cases we come to an impasse. The Student Vagabond...
...Lord Furber's motive. It seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber has had dealings with Lallers in a manner to make her husband acutely covetous of the option; that Mr. Sutherland has been abducted in the hope he will listen to his host's chequebook; that Miss Perkins is an innocent victim of circumstances. A garbled press dispatch is printed in London and meets the eye of Lady Furber. Lady Furber, being a woman of some decision, reaches Monte Carlo almost immediately, boards the yacht, and rings down...
...others, but any one of these will cover the ground of the others. The lectures strike a certain percentage of the class as amusing. At the opening sessions there are considerable guffaws, but this soon wears off and you find yourself confronted by the awful reality of having to listen to Professor Hooton read from his little cards in a low monotone...
...once most excellent qualities with large disadvantages. Perhaps the most excellent thing about Fine Arts 1d, at least for the ordinary undergraduate, is Professor Edgell; even at Harvard it is all too rare to have the opportunity of hearing a lecturer to whom it is a pleasure to listen. The vast majority of those who come to marvel that merely human flesh and blood can speak so rapidly, smoothly, and interestingly, remain for an hour under a species of trance in which scenes from the Mediaeval Renaissance and Modern masters flash before the eye to the accompaniment of a symphony...