Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of low salary and non-union hours, "the intellegensia as is" seems contented with its lot. Philosophers have always proclaimed the joys of "thought for thought's sake", and have extended a general invitation to all who cared to listen. The fact that few have heeded has bothered them not at all, up to the present. But now a critic, exclaiming that the teaching profession is in danger of falling into the hands of women, a possibility decried by all educational experts, sets before men the arguments to induce them to enter it: the interest offered by contact with...
...Year's resolution shouted from the housetops and repeated again and again in the days following. may ring hollow, but at least it is emphatic enough to make people listen. Similarly three-column headlines on the same theme appearing for seven days in the newspapers of New Year's week, indicate that the world is making up its mind to do something important some-where...
...church we employ elaborate chairs and expensive choruses, and then we sit and listen instead of singing...
More than 700 members of the incoming Freshman class crowded the Living Room of the Union last night to hear welcoming speeches by President Lowell, Dean Sperry, Assistant Dean Little, Mr. George Wigglesworth '74, and Mr. W. J. Bingham '16; and to listen to these men's views on the opportunities offered at the University. The meeting closed with the singing of "Fair Harvard" and a regular Harvard cheer, led by Vinton Chapin...
...allusion to the illusion, and we have done. As the moth must have its yellow flame, so must Harvard have its yellow peril; yet when the tempting colors have been smudged by rains, and the screaming message out-screamed by the allurements of the Tiddledewinks team, then will we listen one again, indulgently smiling, to echoes of hollow laughter along Mount Auburn street, reverberated from the recesses of an empty stein...