Word: listened
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five hundred men. Here the great fetes take place, and banquets are given to the other Nations, the hall being used also as a ball-room on such occasions. At ordinary times the hall is used as a gathering place for the men where they smoke, gossip and listen to music by some of their number. Nothing goes on in or out of the university that is not immediately made known at the Nations. They take the place of the college paper in the student's daily life. Connected also with the clubs are library rooms and libraries, and various...
...college has always been greatly favored in being granted opportunities to listen to addresses from visitors of note. Men like Canon Farrar always possess great influence on undergraduate thought and deed, - an influence that goes far to direct aright a student's after life. As we feel so strongly that the benefit received from hearing words full of weight and inspiration from men of ability is great, we can but imitate little Oliver, and cry for "More." Will it not be possible for the authorities to arrange an opportunity for us to listen to Mr. Haweis before his departure from...
...unusual ability as a lecturer, would draw audiences that would not feel at all lost even in such a capacious auditorium as the theatre. The change to Sanders would give a popular course of lectures the prominence that it surely deserves, and would also allow more persons to listen to Dr. Royce's discourses on Californian History, discourses that cannot fail to interest and instruct. To Dr. Royce himself the thanks of the college are certainly due for what he has so successfully undertaken for their entertainment and instruction...
Quite a respectably sized audience was seated in Roberts Hall last evening to listen to the first concert ever given by freshmen at Harvard. The class was unfortunate in having fixed the date for their concert on the same night as the Shakspere Club's performance, and the audience was naturally not as large as might have been wished. The following program was rendered by the club, assisted by freshman members of the Pierian...
...announcement that the members of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union were favored with a lecture by Dr. Sargent on "How to get Recreation and Exercise" leads naturally enough to the inquiry why the undergraduates of Harvard are not allowed to listen to a similar lecture from this gentleman. Now that the season of open-air sports is at hand, it would seem fitting that Dr. Sargent should assemble the men who are under his immediate charge, for the purpose of giving them a few words of advice as to how they may most profitably employ their hours...