Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...telegram of October 11th, by your correspondent, has no bearing on the matter. It was sent in answer to our asking for some later date and dispatched after we heard of the arrangement with Yale...
...advocated in the Bible, political economy endorsed it either. For either the correspondent must translate his "saving" by "miserliness" or else convict himself of ignorance. But his most absurd remark of all is: "Christ himself was not prudent." Let me recommend to the writer Mr. Mill's masterly answer to the charge of "Expediency" brought against his "Utilitarianism." Is far-sightedness any the less sight than near-sightedness? If you mean by "prudence" near-sightedness, then we do not claim for it the meaning of far-sightedness, nor indeed do we desire to have anything to do with...
...John Harvard has denounced the pirates whom before he had intended to join, has obtained Dame Dafpodil's permission to marry Dorothy, and the pirates are just being led off to jail, where we find them when the curtain rises on the second act. The pirates behind the bars answer their lamenting betrothed in a song from Falka. The girls departing leave them to their fate. Follows a conversation between the pirates in the jail on the right of the stage, and Stubbs in stocks on the left. The captives following the directions of an oftconsulted manual, mesmerise the prison...
...Yale freshmen and Columbia 'varsity to the contests at New London. The plan is well arranged, and the attempt is ingenious. A despatch was sent yesterday to New Haven for further particulars in regard to the matter, but up to the time of going to press last night no answer had been received. The crew management has received no notice of the demands made by Columbia and Yale, and declines to make any statement in regard to the matter until after such notification shall arrive...
...rules of the game are perfectly definite and are never disputed, umpires are provided for, and there is no opportunity for quarrelling about this nor as to where a match is to be played. Then, why should Harvard ask Princeton and Yale to form a separate league? The answer is ready enough: To boom college base-ball. How could the annual Yale-Princeton foot-ball game have become the paramount athletic event, that it has, if it were simply a game of a long series and played by two colleges of a large foot-ball league! Or, to draw...