Word: listener
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...interest of undergraduates. We wonder if the average instructor is as heartily interested in the welfare of his scholars as the athletic coach is in the welfare of his charges, or the officers of a social club in its promotion. Results do not seem to justify this belief. We listen to dreary, ill-prepared talks--not lectures--and at the end of an hour fly with a sigh of relief to the athletic field or to the clubs. It is conceivable, that, if all our instructors delivered their lectures with the earnestness and eloquence of our borrowed professors, and took...
Over a hundred candidates for the University and Freshman baseball teams filled the Trophy Room of the Union last evening to listen to an outline of the season's plans from Coach Pieper and Captain Leonard...
From a more selfish point of view the meeting tonight commands attention. Even among the host of lecturers who address us, Mr. Wister stands out as a man who distinctly appeals to under graduates, and it will be a pleasure to listen to a Harvard graduate who is a successful and typically American author...
...which would conform to the dignity of the anniversary, but this the Faculty refused to undertake. If they had, it would, indeed, have required a fertile imagination to devise a program which would have enlisted the support of the undergraduates. We can picture the entire University marching sedately to listen to serious orations and to solemn reflections upon the life of John Harvard. The atmosphere of reverent awe would be everywhere in evidence, but not the undergraduates...
Below is a list of the men who reported yesterday, with the hours of the squads into which they are divided. All the coxswains should come down to the boathouse as often as possible to watch the rowing and listen to the coaching. Any Freshman candidate for the crew who did not report yesterday should report at some time this afternoon. The men assigned to the different squads must be dressed to row punctually at the hours designated, but if any are unable to report at the hour assigned on account of recitations, they should report to Coach Farley whenever...