Word: answered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...article of Charles P. Ware '62 in the last number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine does much to answer the question that is often asked, "Except in educational and philanthropic enterprises, and occasionally in some subordinate public office, what service to the public has been rendered by the sons of Harvard...
Last evening Rev. Edward S. Drown of the Episcopal Theological School delivered an address on "The Answer to Prayer...
...objected to that this prayer is merely a means of strengthening one's spiritual muscle and that it makes no difference whether there is any answer or not; but if a man once gets this idea, prayer loses all significance for him. He will no longer pray when he can expect no reply. Again, it is claimed that the answering of prayers involves a violation of the laws of nature. But God does not interfere with these laws. He is rather constantly working in nature. People speak of special answers to prayer as if to imply that God only occasionally...
Further, it is held that when God answers a prayer, His will must be changed; and this is opposed to the conception of His changelessness. We answer that His purpose is always the same and that on this very account its outward form of expression must change, even as a father's love for his child, though always remaining the same, will show itself in ever varying ways...
...answer to this petition, the Faculty voted to omit the words "or musical" from the vote passed Dec. 6. The rule now reads, "Voted, that the committee on entertainments be instructed to refuse application for leave to give public theatrical performances by organizations composed mainly of sophomores or freshmen...