Word: listener
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have written. If preliminary training for a debate is to be restricted to elocution there is one way to ensure it, that of giving out the subject for the first time when the debate is about to begin, but it is hardly probable that any one would care to listen to more than one intercollegiate debate conducted under such a rule...
...said that if the music was of a higher and more serious nature there would be less objection to the trip. But this objection is founded upon misconception of the true object of a college Glee Club. If our graduates wish to listen to classical music they will seek professional musicians. Men engaged in the serious work of life go to a Glee Club concert to renew their relations with their Alma Mater and to live over, to some extent, their college days. If the concert does not satisfy this desire it is a failure. To demand, therefore, that...
...Youngman, L. S., who was sent by the Harvard Republican Club to the doubtful states, last week, to deliver speeches for sound money, is expected home tomorrow. He has met with a very cordial reception on his trip and found the most excitable of silver men willing to listen attentively to dispassionate statements. He reached Chicago on Friday last and spoke at meetings Saturday and Sunday. At Rochelle, Ill., he spoke to an audience composed largely of silver men and was the only speaker. He found no prejudice against an Eastern man anywhere. At last accounts Mr. Youngman was leaving...
...large audience assembled yesterday afternoon in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum to listen to Professor de Sumichrast's reading of Phedre from his own English translation of the tragedy...
...judgment that they pass upon plays is far from having the weight that should belong ot any expression of opinion based on experience and thought. It is proposed that this club, to consist of such playgoers as shall be invited to join, shall meet from time to time to listen to addresses on dramatic subjects directly suggested by current productions, to discuss the merits and demerits of such performances as may at the time be attracting public attention, and in general to make the best thought and taste of Boston felt in the dramatic life of the city. While...