Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that a similar statement could not always be applied to the students. One of the instructors recently told his division that he could not meet it until ten minutes after the hour. At ten and a half minutes past, the class left the recitation room and made no answer to the instructor who came in at that moment and said that he was at the disposal of the students and would lecture or not at their pleasure. An occurence like this is surely unfortunate, and we hope for the sake of the reputation of Harvard manhood, that nothing...
About a dozen men gathered in Holden Chapel last evening in answer to the call of the committee in charge of the erection of a grand stand. As no interest was taken by the students in the proposed plan, the committee decided to let the matter rest...
...filled by general competition. But not only do we ask candidates for the paper to contribute to it, but we solicit, and will accept with pleasure, any suitable communication bearing upon matters of general interest to the college. Our former calls for contributions have been very widely answered, and it is with the hope that they will receive a still more extended answer that we repeat our request...
...furthermore that the time which a man is to devote to his forensic work be not all crowded into the last week, but be distributed among several, as by this means far the best results can be obtained. Several of the excluded topics are such as any student can answer without a moments trouble, and therefore their exclusion will not hamper the exercise of his argumentative faculties. Such a question as, "Ought a University to attempt the moral guidance of its students?" is obviously too easy for consideration, while the question "Is Charity harmful?" is promptly and decidedly answered...
There was a well attended meeting of the Ornithological Club in Mass. 2 last evening to answer a circular sent them by the U. S. Department of Agriculture on Ornithological subjects...