Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pleasure. We have always been taught to emulate the Father of his Country, and an especially good opportunity to do so was given yesterday. As he was in the habit of cutting apple-trees, we might have cut examinations, and when requested by the Dean to show cause, the answer would be ready, - "I cannot tell a lie, I was sick...
...matter he is to be examined on. It is the review of a subject that drives it home, that makes it fast in the tenacious grasp of memory. But when do we get the opportunity for this review? During the three weeks allotted to the examinations, you answer. But what if the most of our examinations come during the first week, as is the case with many, where then is the alternative? We have no time before the period of examination commences, since all of it is, or ought to be, taken up in the preparation of our regular recitations...
...state of the walks in the Yard suggests the idea that the persons who have charge of them mean to answer in the affirmative the poet who asks...
...think. I don't want to. I am not an instructor paid to do the thinking for every idiot who can't do it for himself. So I answer, "I don't know," and he straightway wants to know why I don't know. Now what fellow can be expected to know why he don't know whether it will rain...
...DEAR JACK, - Your answer to my last letter is very natural. You say that I am inconsistent; that, while urging you to appear to be a rich man, I have furnished your room in such a manner that, to say the least, it is not superior to those of many of your classmates; and you wind up with a glowing description of the Eastlake glories of the furniture of that eminent Freshman, Smith. In your discontent with the commonplace character of your household gods, you have forgotten one of my express recommendations, - to avoid extravagance; and you have forgotten another...