Word: listeners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sever 11 was filled with an audience which had come to listen to what proved to be a truly delightful and very instructive lecture on the "Various influences affecting the development of Greek Art." Professor Waldstein spoke without the use of notes and his delivery was marked by a pleasing conversational tone...
...enterprise of the Total Abstinence League in receiving such able and entertaining speakers as Col. Thomas W. Higginson and Gen. John L. Swift is to be greatly commended. Those who have been fortunate enough to listen to the scholarly and eloquent addresses of Col. Higginson and those who have heard the brilliant and witty speeches of Gen. Swift will appreciate the opportunity given them to-night. Col. Higginson is well known to us all. Of Gen. Swift, we would like to say that a more amusing speaker, a better story teller, has rarely appeared before American audiences. He is often...
...large audience assembled in Appleton Chapel yesterday evening to listen to Dr. Greer of Grace Church, Providence. The service was conducted in the usual Sunday evening ritual, by Dr. Francis Peabody. The intrinsic beauty of the hymns was greatly enhanced by the manner in which they were rendered by the choir and Mr. Osgood...
...next hour wander up and down the sounding corridors, whiling away the time by whistling and talking. This is not only a piece of great ill-breeding, but it is a nuisance to both instructors and students; it is impossible for the former to lecture, or the latter to listen with equanimity with all this noise going on in the entries. Men should remember that the corridors in Sever are very resonant, even when people are walking in them; perhaps this is unavoidable - but loud talking and whistling should be stopped at once and altogether...
Last evening Sanders Theatre was filled with an appreciative audience to listen to the first concert of the winter given by the college Glee Club and orchestra. The programme...