Word: listened
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Upon this motion, the gentleman in the chair (Judge Hoar) will rise and say: 'It gives me uncommon pleasure to listen to the remarks and the motion of my friend on the left. The State, the college and the community owe him a debt of gratitude. It gives me pleasure to listen to the motion and the remarks, and I trust the proposition will meet with general approval...
...received the Toppan prize at the next meeting of the Finance Club, which will probably be held next Wednesday evening. As the essay treats of the tariff question which is at present so much discussed, we feel that there will be a general desire among the students to listen to it. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Finance Club will make their meeting an open one. Indeed, the plan of throwing open all of the meetings of the club to such men as are interested in economic questions, has much to recommend it. The discussion of course could...
...freshman whom they judged to be verdant. After the sophomores had got into the room the freshman asked what they wished. "Oh, we have come to put you through," was the reply. The freshman told them they had better not attempt anything, but they scornfully refused to listen to advice from a member of a lower class, and made a rush for the youth whom they took to be green. With a blow he laid one of the bold sophs upon his back. In the melee that followed the light was overturned and extinguished, when the freshman grasped a chair...
...audience of about eighty was present in Boylston Hall last evening, to listen to the readings for the Lee prizes, by members of '86, The readings occupied an hour, and that they were enjoyed by the audience was demonstrated by the close attention with which they were received. The selections were taken from the "Mill on the Floss" and Macaulay's "History of England." The successful contestants were as follows: Taylor, $35; Roberts, $30; Whitman, $25; Hamlin, $20; Rose, $20: Haves, $20; The following-named gentlemen acted as judges: President Eliot, Dean Smith, Profs. Hill and Thayer, and Messrs. Curtis...
...class of '84, so noted for unusual actions, has just given a new sensation to the student community at Ann Arbor. On last Friday evening the freshmen met to indulge in the wild dissipation of a class supper, and to listen to the lofty eloquence of their chosen orators. At half-past nine about thirty couples had assembled, and all was in readiness for the evening's entertainment, when it was discovered that the president, orator and toastmaster were absent. Without these important functionaries nothing could be done, so all proceedings were blocked for about an hour, when, becoming anxious...