Word: listened
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ends, attention is called to the department of fine arts in a way at once pleasing and elevating. Mr. Herkomer enjoys a high reputation as a scholarly critic, and is a man of refined tastes. Anything that he will be led to say cannot fail to interest those who listen to him. College students are slowly arriving at an appreciation of the fine arts and the benefit to be derived from a study of them, and can understand the weight which men of culture give the subject. We trust that Mr. Herkomer will be greeted with a large and enthusiastic...
...usual large audience overcrowded Sever 11 last evening to listen to Dr. Robert T. Edes' lecture on "Medicine as a Profession." The lecturer was unable, through lack of time, to give to the latter half of his lecture the completeness, which otherwise he would have given...
Thanks to the Historical Society Sanders will be opened to-night, and an audience, comfortably seated, will listen to an interesting lecture. "The Lost Despatch, the Story of Antietam," is a subject that will in itself draw a good audience, and Col. Allan is a speaker well able to present it. We have already spoken emphatically of the value of these lectures to the college, and of the honor that they bring to the Historical Society...
...audience filling the entire body of Sanders Theatre assembled last evening to listen to the recital of one of the most remarkable campaigns of the Civil war, and it was given with such grace and ease, combined with thorough knowledge of the situation, that the attention of the audience was kept at a high degree of interest. Many amusing incidents and patriotic references were cited, which kept the audience in pleasant communion with the speaker. Major Hotchkiss began by stating that there are three things in a campaign that are important. 1. The topography of the field of action...
...opposed; they are not prayers. There is but one thing essential to their being defensible; that they become prayers. If the men who established them had been told - "These prayers will be a mere roll-call, a practice kept up for fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained to believe that those devout men would have preferred to establish no prayers, to devise...