Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point of chief interest to the undergraduates, however, is the revolution in our educational system which the new discoveries seem bound to bring about. Many a youth with more ingenuity than love of knowledge has spent sundry pleasant hours in figuring out how he might listen to his nine o'clock lecture without the uncomfortable concomitant of getting out of bed. But with "directed", untapable wireless an actual fact, the educational importance of Big Bens and roommates notebooks is certain ere long to be reduced to nil. Lectures will soon be given by the Professor between his-grapefruit...
...language as in any other species of human thought and action; super-conceits are only ridiculous. But it does seem as though even leaving English. A and the "red-cap" out of the question the average person, be he litterateur, scientist of philosopher, should be willing both to listen and speak with some degree of care. More than that, he must do so if he is to succeed in his chosen field. Examples to strengthen this argument are unnecessary, surely. Not that "the man on the street" ought to be able to distinguish at first hearing, the difference in sound...
...find an academic berth or starve. The modern doctor-editor publicist, reviewer, critic, or author-has a thousand channels open to him, thanks to the printing press. It is true no gaping crowds of docile youth are compelled to stop in the highways and by-ways to listen whether they will or not. But the modern doctor who a message will be heard and sustained outside academic walls. He may, if he looks too far ahead, suffer the martyr's fate. But, if he chooses the wiser method of teaching those things the multitude can hear, he may sustain himself...
...college course to realize the opportunities which he has;--and which he is missing. We all know that it is easy to hear very bad music, and that it is also possible to hear very good music here in Cambridge. Surely an appreciable number of Harvard men have tried listening to both kinds. It is possible to listen to a Beethoven symphony in one evening. Can one get an idea of the art of a poet or a painter as easily? If the poet writes in a language foreign to us we must expend more effort than is needed...
...incessant changes in meaning which words in any living language are constantly undergoing, Dr. Butler's point is significant. It is almost self-evident today that any man who can call himself a "reformer", exhibit "liberal" ideas and evoke a "progressive" platform inevitably finds plenty of people to listen to him. An avowed "conservative" usually commands an audience of himself and row upon row of empty chairs. As a result, people become so afraid of being thought conservative in any way, that they lean backward in an effort to stand straight as out-and-out liberals. In consequence, they resort...