Word: unheard
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Connor laid great streets on this peculiar mixture of laxity and stern customs in Parliamentary procedure. While, for example, lounging, yawning, and sleeping during an opponent's speech is a common matter, leaving the chamber without bowing before the speaker's chair is unheard of. But many of the irrevocable customs, ridiculous as they may seem to one who does not understand their meaning, were, at the time of their institution, founded on necessary circumstances, and therefore worthy of respect. In the paraphernalia, customs, and associations of Westminster Abbey, historic past and actual present are strangely mingled...
...point in its successful growth where incorporation has become a highly important factor in its beneficial service; and that the majority who voted merely, to this effect in the meeting of November 7 would be supported by the prevailing opinion among the much more numerous members as yet unheard from. But I am of the opinion that the scheme of incorporation proposed by the Committee is vicious in its fundamental plan, in that it deprives the student members at large of all legally effective control over the affairs of the Society; and I respectfully call the attention of the members...
...applicant had proved his merit in a trial debate, and once admitted he was only able to debate before the club three times at most during the year. Furthermore, the rivalry between the clubs seldom showed itself in inter-club debates, and as yet, inter-class debates were unheard...
...various auspices, few if any have dealt directly with the past history of the College. We have attended in greater or less numbers, lectures on politics, re- ligion, reform, Greek Antiquities, and even, if I am not mistaken, on the place of the snake in the art of some unheard- of people; but the traditions of Harvard, her great men, the development of her present customs and peculiarities, have been altogether slighted...