Word: answered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team will lunch with the Harvard team there today, and may take dinner also. The Princeton and Yale teams have been invited to make use of the same privileges while here. Princeton has declined. There has not been time enough since the invitation was sent to Yale for an answer to be rereturned...
...answer this, it must clearly be remembered that, in order to give scholarships to the best advantage, two questions ought to be answered with regard to each applicant: First, what will be his usefulness in after life; secondly, how much money does he need to enable him to secure a college education. We believe that the first question cannot be answered definitely and that the attempt to answer it by reference to college rank is particularly disastrous. Who can tell, or who even honestly thinks he can tell, of how much use a student will be in after life...
...everything. Two things, perhaps, retain their freshness more perdurably than the rest,- the return of spring, and the more poignant utterances of the poets. And here, I think, Wordsworth holds his own with the best. But how much of his poetry is likely to be a permanent possession? The answer to this question is involved in the answer to a question of wider bearing,- What
...subject of Mr. Copeland's lecture last night was "Twenty Novels for a Desert Island." If one were left alone on a desert island from which there was to be no return, what twenty novels would be the most satisfactory in such a life-long solitude? In answer to this question Mr. Copeland had collected lists from some thirty persons of different ages and occupations. Some few of these lists he read, after a consideration of the qualities which would in general be demanded of novels which were alone to represent the whole mass of fiction...
After the lecture Mr. Morse remained for some for some time to answer any question which the members wished...