Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will men persist in coming in late to the lectures, and public readings held in Sever 11? That is a question often asked and we are forced to say it, one to which it is impossible to give a satisfactory answer which will exonerate the delinquents from blame. Attention is called to this bad bubit of game of the men among us again, and again, but apparently to was little purpose for the evil temporariy checked, soon increases to its old proportions. Cannot the thoughtless who are guilty of this annoyance keep in mind that their action disconcerts the reader...
...with the manner in which the performance was received, particularly in view of the fact that hitherto the society has given only burlesques at Havernill, and some hesitations was felt in introducing legitimate comedy. The impersonations of Mr. Winter were greeted with much applause, and he was obliged to answer to several encors. After the performance the company sat down to a sumptous repast at the Webster House, provided by the manager of the theatre...
...Washington elm, Longfellow's house, Tufts college, and all the other great sights in the vicinity, and, true to Harvard instinct, were ready and able to talk about the region for miles around. When, however, we were asked if we had visited Wellesley, our invariable answer was "No;" but we always added that we had friends there, and had been invited out, but had never cared to go. We then, thought this was a wise answer, but now we see how foolish it must have seemed to those who heard it. We now seriously assert that no man's education...
...great pity that the college is so poor that it cannot afford to found a regular course whose aim should be to train men for journalism. None of the present English composition courses answer this need for special instruction. In effect, their purpose is to give literary finish by means of careful work, and criticism. While this sort of study is of course necessary to gain a power of clear and graceful composition, yet these courses do not afford any chance for rapid off-hand writing. The system of daily theme writing, instituted in one course, is an approach toward...
...prevailing feeling that the very existence of right and wrong is involved in this question; and therefore men approach the subject with their minds already made up, and in doot take the trouble to analyze the problem and see in what sense right and wrong really depend on the answer we give...