Word: listened
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time of winter, of snow and hail, cold winds and frosts is all past. This Easter vacation has put a long distance between all that and the present fair days. Now come the delicious siestas after dinner under the trees of the yard, while we smoke philosophically and listen to the glee club. Now is the tennis, the ball games, the boating and the cool winds blowing into our open windows. Ah! ye gods! why can this not last always...
...account of lack of space the full report of the Harvard Union debate will not appear in this paper until tomorrow. Over 200 persons assembled to listen to it. The vote on the merits of the question was 80-71 in Mr. Blaine's favor. On the merits of the principal disputants it stood 112-58 against his nomination for the presidency...
...large audience assembled in Sever 11 last evening to listen to a discussion of the merits of a university club. Messrs. Proctor and Lee argued for the affirmative; Messrs. Poppleton and Rich for the negative...
...lecture last evening by Gen. Crook on the Indian question gave the students of Harvard, as well as the citizens of Cambridge, an opportunity to listen to the most famous Indian fighter in the country. That Gen. Crook, a principal actor in the stirring scenes which are constantly being enacted on the frontier, and a man whose bravery and intrepidity are as well known as his patriotism, and his earnestness in defence of the oppressed race for whom he speaks, should deliver an address in Sanders Theatre, seems to remind us once again of the many privileges enjoyed by Harvard...
Tuesday morning saw a large gathering of ladies and gentlemen assembled in the old chapel to listen to the time honored orations of the class-orators. F. Palmer, Mass., represented the freshmen; T. W. Hotchkiss, N, Y.. the sophomores, and T. N. McCarter, N.J., the juniors. These gentlemen reflected much credit on themselves and their respective classes by their efforts. F. E. Reid, Ohio, was the senior orator. His oration, by custom long established, was of the witty and humorous type. His thrusts were keen and heartily appreciated, especially by the undergraduates, to whom many of the jokes were...