Word: listener
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small but much interested audience assembled in Sever 11 last evening to listen to an address by the Rev. A. P. Peabody before the Total Abstinence League...
...noble and musical as the best parts of Homer. The poem contains 220.000 lines, with 18,000 supplementary ones, and is held in such high honor by Indians that it is learned by heart. The Indians sit around some Brahmin, and consider it one of the greatest boons to listen to him recite episode after episode. The metre is easily mastered and therefore easily imitated; this quality has led to many editions by Brahmins who desired to express their own ideas, and has made of what must originally have been a most noble and grand monument of ancient literature...
...many as possible to be present. The society during the past year, has accomplished a good deal, and may now be considered to be on a firm basis. The first part of the year, through the efforts of the Conference, the members of the University were enabled to listen to a lecture by M. Coquelin, and within the past week the society has brought out in a very creditable manner, two plays which, we were very glad to see, were well received by the college at large. With an active membership which is constantly increasing, we see no reason...
...having had a long and hard trip. The grand stand was filled with a fair sized audience, among which was a delegation of lacrosse players from Lehigh University, who cheered Princeton enthusiastically. The Harvard delegation consisted of one '90 man and the CRIMSON representative. The nine were obliged to listen to the lusty cheering of their opponents but were able to hear no representatives of their own college cheering them on. If the game had been lost, the undergraduates could not be censured too severely. As it is the nine deserves the more credit...
...very large audience assembled in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to listen to Professor J. W. White's lecture on the Greek stage. Professor White said that of all the monuments of ancient Athens which have survived the ravages of time none is more interesting than the theatre of Dionysus. For many years the site of this theatre was not known. The greatest share of the credit of its discovery and subse quent excavation is due to the Germans. The theatre is at the southeastern extremity of the Acropolis. It was constructed on the plan...