Word: listened
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...audience of seventy persons, including, unfortunately, no more than fifteen students, assembled last evening to listen to the second of the series of Sever Hall concerts. The Mueller-Campanari Quartette far outdid their first effort, both in the choice of programme and in the execution of the music. Noticeably their strongest point lies in the harmonious quality of their tone, whereby all delicate ensemble passages become doubly pleasing. The second and fourth movements of the Mozart Quartette seemed to be most pleasing to the audience...
Last night about seventy men assembled in Sever 11 to listen to the Harvard Union debate on "Resolved, That the Republican party has outlived its usefulness." The principal disputants were: Messrs. Lloyd, '83, and E. A. Hubbard, '84, for the affirmative; Foss, '85, and Merriam, '86, for the negative. The affirmative claimed that the party should cease to exist, since it had fallen completely into the hands of demagogues. The negative gave an able review of the good work done by the party in the past, and claimed that it could and would continue in its labors. Messrs. Barnes, Jones...
...woman) should or should not know, no argument is needed to show that he (or she) should be able to write good English.' Professor Hill has that first quality of a good teacher, the power of holding a startled attention. His keen-edged sentences oblige one not only to listen but to believe; for his vigorous style is clearly the natural outgrowth of a sound and vigorous judgment. It is this honest severity of training that women's minds at this moment need. 'Do the Annex girls enjoy the advantages of Cambridge society? is a question often asked. No; partly...
...performance ever taken place at any of our colleges. The tu-quoque argument will not relieve Americans from any of the blame for the evils of hazing, but it certainly can tend to reduce the magnitude of our offences in the eyes of a stern and unsympathizing public to listen to such accounts as this of the rowdyism of English and Scotch students. Pelting professors with peas and rushing them through a melee is certainly not characteristic of American students, neither is uproarious applause of a prayer nor interrupting academical ceremonies with cat-calls and mock psalm tunes. The American...
...many who believe that its course in this, as in other matters, is as wrong as it can well be." It is appaling to contemplate the flood of denunciation and vilification to which we are now likely to be subjected as a result of these one-sided accusations. We listen in patience for more...