Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representatives chosen for the Princeton conference are not yet committed to any policy and are ready to listen to all suggestions. The prevailing sentiment of the meeting tonight will to a considerable extent determine Harvard's attitude at the conference on Wednesday...
...charged with so important a public duty should stood to petty politics and mud-slinging. If the institutions have really been backward in their methods, they should frankly concede it and proceed to improve themselves; for no educational institution is worthy of that name that is not willing to listen to suggestions. Col. Forbes, moreover, acts as if he were anxious to divert any attention from his own department, the Veterans' Bureau, by pointing a finger at the vocational schools...
Time and time again we hear that the purpose of a college is to teach men to think. But it must be admitted that the majority of large courses let the student slip by with but little mental effort. The lecturer cannot but be impersonal, and many listen to him as they would to a speaker on Boston Common; with little attention and no thought. In a small course it is different. The student meets the professor personally, and has opportunity to discuss with him any point about which he is doubtful. Besides, he cannot but feel that the professor...
...influential. The students are realizing more and more since the war the artificial atmosphere of the College, and they are seeking to break down the fulsome barriers that they feel are artificial, and to let out their pent-up enthusiasm where the "bel-monde" will stop and listen. And it is just here that the undesirable intellectual pawn-brokers that live about Cambridge become important. They are extremely good listeners as well as advisers...
Other features are a rolling skating act by the Sterlings; Bill Frawley and Edna Louise in a bright playlet "Seven A. M."; Marie and Mary MacFarland the American Grand Opera Stars; Lane and Hendricks in a skit called "Listen Archie"; and La Dora and Beckman, the pair of white birds, who are better on the wing than when warbling...