Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...museums of Europe, in which their masterpieces are happily preserved, it would be difficult to say where we could turn for any art education. But these, also, are unaccessible to the mass of Americans, and the question naturally arises, Where are they to look for like advantages? The answer to this question, it seems to me, involves the only new element we can now foresee in the future history of art. Will not America, original and successful as she is in her form of government, educational institutions, and business enterprises, be able to throw some new vitality and vigor into...
...simultaneous publication of two books, written by students of this University, is a literary event of no small importance to us, and is a triumphant answer to those who assert that literature is at a discount here. The books are now in press, and will be for sale in a few days. Both are in pamphlet form, and, when published, may be had at the bookstore. We have advance sheets of both before us, and we predict for one, at least, a ready sale. The first was doubtless suggested by an article in the last Magenta. It is entitled...
...those little bills with which we are all more or less acquainted; from this I learned that he was indebted to a coal-merchant for just the above-mentioned amount, purchased at the beginning of the year. I then fully understood the import of his answer. He evinced the most morbid curiosity for all my secrets, and as soon as he had discovered one, it was the common property of the class. From morning till evening it was one continual "Let me see your notebook," "Where's your translation?" How is this problem solved?" "Let me see your theme...
...scanty space for three hundred students in 1873; that ranges intended for the cooking of eight joints of meat cannot be made to serve for the cooking of twenty-four joints; that although one waiter may wait properly upon ten men, she may not possess the power to answer the demands of twenty-four hungry undergraduates...
...says it is?" I answer...