Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Columbia has positively refused to play Harvard on Saturday next. Mr. Clark, the manager of the Harvard Association, telegraphed to New York twice last week, to make arrangements for the game. He received no answer however. On Monday last he telegraphed again for information, and finally received an answer stating that the Columbia team would come. Tuesday, Mr. Clark received a telegram asking that the game be played in New York, as the members of the Columbia team refused to come unless their expenses were paid (by their own college, of course) before the game. But as all the arrangements...
...been invited by the government to investigate the workings of the institution. Among the questions propounded to the mathematical professor of the faculty was one desiring the number of right angles comprised in a right-angled triangle. The professor requested permission to consult with his colleagues before giving an answer to so knotty a question, and the next morning gravely returned with the answer that 'it depended on the size of the triangle...
...Laughlin has appointed a fourth hour in which to answer questions in Political Economy 1. He will meet the section in Sever 11 from 2 to 3 Tuesday, the same day and place in which Mr. Wendell meets the juniors for instruction in themes...
...reason given for establishing this extra hour is that the instructor has not time to deliver his lecture and answer the questions of such large sections in his regular hours, but it should be remembered that questions are chiefly valuable when arising in connection with the subject, and questions which would be of much service if asked immediately are forgotten or of no use if they must be kept a week. There are many men in the course who cannot afford to give to it more time than they do already, especially when there is no compensation offered...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -My attention has been called to a communication in the HERALD-CRIMSON Tuesday morning, Oct. 9. As an officer of the Total Abstinence League I deem it my duty to answer some of the seeming misrepresentation in the communication alluded to. The character of the article, whether the writer intended or not, is calculated to prejudice members of the college, especially freshmen, from joining the League...