Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...people, even the women (God be praised!), will have to be considered. What ought our position to be? The situation is absolutely new in history. The problems that we shall face are not primarily political or legal problems, but human ones; the questions that we shall have to answer are questions that state themselves not so much of national honor as in terms of human sympathy...
...highly (?) educated--in the bookish sense,--young man of America is fond of talking in an impassioned way of the infinitely superior knowledge and the supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such a point of view will receive a blank stare and the answer that your inability to see in itself proves the national mental inferiority as exampled in you. That is a fairly unanswerable argument; the old one of saying a man is a fool because he is not wise enough to see he is a fool...
...Monthly's versifiers. Only the persistent reader succeeds in ploughing through the obscuitities of his first sonnet; and even he cannot help feeling at the end that the whole business would better have been finished off in fourteen lines instead of 28--doubts in the octave, triumphant answer in the sestet, for instance...
This assertion is so obviously illogical and even ridiculous that it scarcely deserves an answer. He is not only thus characterizing Harvard University but, in the event of a Republican victory in November, the majority of the voters of this country. HOYT SHERMAN...
...eighties when the Harvard Advocate was something of a close corporation, the Monthly appeared to answer the call for a democratic College magazine. Since that day life in the University has changed, and now men stand more nearly on an equal footing with their fellow-students. Both of our literary papers have felt this liberalizing influence, and as a result the policies of each are so nearly identical that a little effort would make them coincide. The former cause for separation has disappeared...