Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this the way to answer the efforts of graduates who are talking seriously of expending $100,000 for the benefit largely of Harvard undergraduates? Is it an adequate encouragement to their loyalty fervently to exclaim as does the Monthly's editorial,- "We feel, therefore, the greatest gratification at the interest which the graduates of Harvard show in the plans, and we must hope that their generous efforts will bring succers"? Is gratification and hope of success all we are going to hold out to those who are working so strenuously...
Acting under the advice of President Dwight, the Phi Beta Kappa Society will take no action at present in regard to building a society house. Rooms will probably be assigned it in one of the university buildings which will answer all purposes nearly as well as a home...
...statements so injurious to university sport should have appeared at all, but as they did appear and were widely circulated it is fortunate that they have been at once so well refuted. It is but justice to Field to add that the editor frankly accepts Mr. Coolidge's answer as putting our athletics in the right light before the English universities...
...question, 'What think ye of Christ,' is one which all must ask themselves. It is not a philosophical or a political question such as the Pharisees were continually propounding. It is a question of personal allegiance to Christ and His Church, and the answer to it determines whether or not a man is a Christian. Christ's apostles and disciples may differ on minor points, but they are all agreed on this main point. The answer to this great question will determine all subsidiary questions for us, and yet few have really put the vital question to themselves...
...lack of training began to tell and their work became sensibly weaker and more ragged and Harvard by repeated spurts began gradually to close up the gap. There was energy enough, however, in B. A. A. to enable them to drive the stroke up to 40 in answer to Harvard's 38 and later 40 to the minute stroke. As both crews neared the line, it was impossible to tell from the launch which was ahead, and it was not until the judge at the finish for Harvard had shouted to the referee, Mr. F. Peabody, that...