Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little to gain by the change she had all to lose. For these two reasons, then, Yale has acted as she has, and as to whether she is willing to enter any new league, consisting of a larger yet limited number of colleges, as has been suggested, no definite answer can yet be made...
...opinions - the subject of which the article on college journals in Monday's issue made an introduction - seems to come with appropriateness. What are college papers for? Are articles written by college officers and outsiders or by students, or by both, the desiderata? These are the two questions, the answer to which - and it will be noticed that an answer to the first is necessary, and sufficient to answer the second - would go far toward setting student publications on a surer basis. The answer, it seems to us, would be that college papers are a receptacle for the literary attempts...
...question which the lecturer in tended to answer was what influences brought about the sudden and phenomenal advance in Greek sculpture between 520 and 360 B. C.; how it came about that the fetters of conventional archaism were broken through and room given for the display of higher genius and greater skill. Chief among the causes that wrought this change was the introduction in the fourth century of the nobler material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition...
...Cornell Gun Club complain that they have received no answer from their challege to Harvard...
...rather turgid sonnet on "Evangline" begins the number; then, after the editorials, a rather powerful story, the treatment of which is new, though the phraseology is somewhat stiff and threadbare. Following are three sweet, dreamy stanzas, entitled "Homeward." They improve on second reading, and with the couplets headed "Another Answer," bring the verse of this issue much above the average. Between the these two intervenes a not very pointed and somewhat cynical story, "Broen's Mistake." It has one fatal fault that it is not true to nature; now who does write truely cannot act truely, and his work...