Word: listened
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with this subject, how would our interest in the classics be increased by some running commentary on the times, customs, and habits of the people they illustrate. As students, the greater part of us are too indifferent to study a history in connection with our reading, but would willingly listen to a course of lectures involving no further effort on our part than an occasional note. This is a want really felt, and we hope it soon will be supplied...
...transcending all the petty efforts of a Port government. The students and professors would be the voters of the town; and every ambitious Sophomore might air his rhetoric at the caucus, and possibly taste the sweets of office. The voters would parade the town in caps and gowns, and listen to stirring addresses in Greek and Latin; and the venerable College would flourish, unrestrained by other rule than that of the body which first founded it, the "General Court of Massachusetts...
...SMALL audience assembled yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel to listen to the competing candidates for the Boylston prizes. The declamations were far superior to those of last year. Out of the thirty competitors, five were awarded prizes. The two first prizes were assigned to E. R. Fenollosa, '74, and T. F. Taylor, '75. F. Dumaresque, A. B. Ellis, and W. H. Holman, all of '75, obtained second prizes. The selection of Mr. Fenollosa afforded excellent opportunities for a display of forcible oratory, which were fully improved. As a dramatic recitation, the rendering of a selection from Shakespeare's King Lear...
...Chapel they listen attentively through...
...have been compelled to listen to such a description of heaven as no educated preacher can or does believe in; such a description as, taken even in its most figurative meaning, could inspire no enthusiasm for its attainment in any but the most animal natures. Perpetual rest, unending song, and Oriental luxury have been the spiritual food the preacher has offered under the appellation of heaven; and this, too often, to those. who despise the effeminacy of such luxury, and whose work, not rest, is their real happiness...