Word: answered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...knocked at a door on the ground-floor of Hollis. No answer. Knocked again. I heard light steps coming toward me; the door opened, and there stood a white figure in full evening dress, so to speak, gazing at me with a vacant stare...
...Good evening, Mr. -," he exclaimed in a pompous way, "I am exceedingly delighted to welcome you to my humble apartment. It gives me pleasure, that I cannot express with sufficient adequacy, to answer you in the affirmative...
...meeting of the Freshman class on Tuesday evening it was voted to send a letter to the Yale Freshmen looking to a race next summer. In case an unfavorable answer is received from New Haven, a challenge will be sent to Columbia...
...noticed her blushes, she did not answer...
Admission to Oxford seems to be easy. The applicant is examined in some Greek play, generally Euripides, or in Homer and Thucydides, in Virgil or some other of the Latin classics; must translate a short English passage into Latin prose, answer some questions on grammar, show a fair familiarity with arithmetic, and know something of Euclid or algebra. But if he possess special excellence in any one of these studies he is pretty certain to be admitted, even though he be weak in the rest. Oxford has a great tendency to foster special abilities...