Word: listeners
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spite of the inauspicious weather last evening,a large audience completely filled Sever 11 to listen to the first debate between the Harvard Union and the Wendell Phillips Club. The question, as has been announced, was "Resolved, That the present method of electing United States senators is preferable to election by popular vote...
This evening at 7.30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, Rev. Dr. Henry Lunn is to address the religious societies on "Christian Reunion." He is a young man of only forty years but a great worker. In London every Sunday about 1250 poor boys gather to listen to him as chaplain of the Polytechnic School. Apart from other work, however, he is president of the "Grindewald Conferences," which last summer numbered 2500 of the most prominent religious leaders of all denominations from Europe and America. He will show in his address the need of this union and the essential points on which...
...indeed, of the large audience which heard Professor de Sumichrast lecture on the Phedre of Racine yesterday afternoon, have ever had the opportunity to listen to a more warmly sympathetic or deeply appreciative review of this masterpiece of the great Racine...
...occasionally been the good fortune of the students to listen to distinguished men who have come to Cambridge from great distances to act as lecturers or preachers to the University. Professor J. Estlin Carpenter, who will this morning begin to conduct prayers, has come from Manchester College, Oxford, expressly to accept an invitation to serve on the Board of Preachers...
...which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us; it revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness, so that we walk invisible like fern-seed, and witness unharmed...