Word: answered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bible Class was held last evening in Holden Chapel with about twenty-five men present. Professor Thayer gave a ecture on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans, in which he read and interpreted passages from the text. After the lecture the professor remained for some time to answer any questions the members wished...
...that Mr. Cook has given a positive and final answer to the question of his withdrawing his resignation of the captaincy of the nine, the question who is to lead Harvard's baseball affairs this spring becomes again an open one. We believe that this resignation will be looked upon with regret by the students, but the matter is done and the thing nearest at hand now is the choice of a successor. The peculiar circumstances which surround our baseball interests today, the fact of the inexperience on 'varsity teams of the players, make it absolutely essential that the best...
...first place, the writer conceives that athletic men here look on the best type of a man physically as something comparable to a "draught horse." Nothing need be said in answer to this but that the best physiques, as shown by Dr. Sargent's charts and as admitted by sensible men everywhere, are not necessarily those of enormous bulk and huge muscle. Symmetry, not size, is the test. The writer repeatedly confounds gymnastic work with the work of athletic contests and includes the former in his attack upon the latter. He makes the very popular mistake of seeing no middle...
...Allen said that true historical spirit is not antiquarian research. To apply this rightly, we must ask, in taking hold of a subject, two questions,- What does it mean? and then, Is it true? The first question we can never fully answer, but if we continue our inquiry in this line, we will be following true historical spirit...
...answer to Captain Davis' call for candidates for the 'varsity crew, about twenty-five men presented themselves yesterday afternoon. Today the first actual work will be done, and now at the very beginning of the season of crew practice we wish to bring to the attention of the students the need of a larger number of candidates and of unusual interest in the work. Last year took from our 'varsity boat six men and their places must be filled by men chosen from the candidates who do this work through the winter. There ought to be twice as many candidates...