Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what do you know of their financial matters?" I answer at once: In some cases, nothing, in some a good deal; but this I do know in every case, that when a holder of a scholarship lives in a $300 room, and, compared to the average student, in real luxury, that man is either frightfully green and imprudent in his expenditures, or else he is frightfully dishonest in taking money he does not need...
...cannot but ask for an explanation. Doubtless a member of the upper classes would say: - "They are freshmen and so know no better. But as a freshman I dismiss this answer with the contempt it deserves. For my own part, I can devise but one explanation. Probably the men who converse are so thoroughly familiar with the principles of English composition and are so skilled in the practice of it that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height...
...letter in answer to that of the Cambridge students which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON should be creditited to the London Punch...
...DROPPERS, Sec'y.Dr. Hall will be at the lecture-room of the Physical Laboratory from 8 to 10 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 4th, to answer questions relative to the examination of Wednesday, Jan, 5th. Students are requested to bring or send their blue-books to the Laboratory lecture-room Tuesday...
...tending, our critics say, as they have said any time these hundred years, to rear a race of good-humored do nothings, if not worse; and so on. There is but one answer to this. That is to be found in the Harvard spirit of which I have already spoken. Go where you will and look at Harvard men and the work they are doing in the world. It is not brilliant, perhaps; it may lack the uncompromising vigor that the cant of our day describes as practical. But wherever you find Harmen in a body you find honest, self...