Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When you ask a New England farmer what he thinks is the substance of a college education, he will answer "Book Larnin'". That response will not be far from the truth. Certain modernistic notions to the contrary not with standing, reading comprises the greater part of our waking hours in college, and books of one sort or another are the most evident concomitants of the academic atmosphere. But in spite of our private shelves of volumes, in spite of our wonderful library with its millions of tomes, its acreage of information--there is one wholly extraneous class of printed matter...
...Scotland Yard in the same way. I escaped Miss Savage's unpleasant experience because I happen to know, as few people do, that the police powers are not all that they pretend to be. My solicitor informed the Scotland Yard authorities that I was perfectly willing to answer any questions they put to me at his office in front of him, but that I would not go to Scotland Yard. This offer was not accepted...
...probability the answer lies in none of these suggestions. Today--and even more so tomorrow--a Bachelor's degree is but the bottom rung in the educational ladder. Men choosing the pedagogic field must now prepare to leap the hurdles of the Master's and the Doctor's letters. Therefore although many have the teaching profession in mind they hesitate to announce their decision on entering the graduate school, realizing that further study may possibly lead them into paths divergent from the professorial chair. A man entering the Law School or the Medical School has his future definitely decided...
...Secretary will try to answer any inquiries, but men desiring to become members of the University are advised, to apply directly to an officer of a College or Hall or of the Delegacy of Non-Collegiate Students, or of the Society of Oxford Home-Students...
...answer given to Gilbert Smith's question is: Great Britain...