Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...None see more clearly than they that there are two sides to the question; and then, the petition coming, as it does, from unprejudiced men, is, in itself, a sufficient argument for the careful consideration which we may be sure it will receive. Our only hope is that the answer may come as soon as is possible, and that it may prove to be in accordance with the best sentiment of the college. Meanwhile, as the question is pending, the students should wait patiently believing that the Faculty will decide for their good...
First comes a plea for professional base-ball training, then the policy of confining athletic contests to Harvard and Yale; next the unpopularity of Lacrosse, and the proposed change in the date of the Class Races, while after all follows an answer to Tenebo's article in the las; number. Topics of the Day contains an article from some unknown person who differs radically with Mr. Leighton on the question of college expenses. We think that has position is right in the main...
...given definitely, but, so far as it is given, shows a wide variation from Professor Palmer's figures. The author of "College Expenses" states that of the two lowest grades together-men spending less than $810-there are about thirty men from each class; whereas Prof. Palmer, in answer to the question "What is a competent allowance for a man coming to Harvard?" says: "If he will live closely, carefully, yet with full regard to all that is required, he may do so, with nearly half his class, on not more than $800." Again the author apologizes for making...
...obtained more systematically than those given in the Monthly. If they may be questioned, it is only in regard to the higher grades. We admit that some men would be reluctant to acknowledge extravagant sums paid for mere luxuries; but we think that few men, after having resolved to answer such questions as Professor Palmer made, would deliberately send in an untruthful statement of expenses. However, we do not feel satisfied with the evidence thus presented; there is room for the further investigation of this subject. After all it is a controversy between what is and what can be spent...
...repudiation were the result. He also blames President Cleveland's administration for not spending our surplus in the purchase of the national debt, but the blame of this lies with Senator Sherman himself, who funded this debt so that it is irredeemable except at a high premium. In answer to the charge that English merchants have spent money to get a foothold in our market, Mr. White said that in twenty-five years of close connection with tariff legislation he never knew of a shilling that was thus expended. Mr. Sherman also says that whoever favors lower duties opposes protection...