Word: answering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more weary hours spent in the ill-ventilated recitation-rooms, which your papers are continually harping upon; nor would the deplorable condition of the walks cause any inconvenience to the students. The instructor could sit in his cosey library and ask his questions, and the student could answer while rolling another cigarette. As for those students who would be likely to read their answers out of their books (although I think there are none of that kind in Harvard), their case could be attended to by the army of proctors, who have little else...
...irritable individual who has written an article in a recent Advocate on the subject of room-rents has now reappeared in an offensive and personal attack on my answer to his complaints. As he has falsified my expressions, and purposely misconstrued my whole article, I think it proper to call attention to the fact in self-defence...
...alcoves. Beyond the name, the catalogue necessarily gives the most unsatisfactory and meagre information in regard to the character of a book. In half the time it ordinarily takes to find the Library boy, one could, if allowed to enter the alcoves, discover whether a book would answer his purpose; while the proposition that a free access to books stimulates reading is proved by the fact that more books have been taken from the shelves containing the new books exposed for examination than from any other collection of the same size in the hall. Students would be no more...
...rendering of Rossini's fantasia from La Gazza Ladra was graceful, light, and airy, and in perfect keeping with the supposed mischievous, mocking character of the subject. He was warmly encored. But the finest individual effort of the evening was Mr. Russak's piano solo, "Regoletto," from Liszt. In answer to an encore he played Mill's "Murmuring Fountain." How far one's judgment may be biassed by outside motives is of course hard to say, but we thought at the time, and have found no cause to change our mind since, that Mr. Russak's playing was irreproachable both...
...article entitled "Graduates and Boating," as well as in the Captain's communication to your journal, an appeal is made to graduates for pecuniary aid. These contributions were elicited by the letters written respectively by '52 and myself. To ask for alms is an extraordinary way to answer a criticism. I write that I disapprove the present system, and you reply by asking me for money to perpetuate that system. Though I will not accept the principle that advice must be backed up by dollars and cents, and though I am not now in a position to subscribe...