Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bring forth good ? Has it held meetings of any recent date to set forth its views, and then endeavored to disseminate them ? Has it had the effect of abating in a single lot this evil which it is in existence to fight ? And in no single instance can we answer in the affirmative...
...pleased to announce that, unless some unforeseen hindrance arises, Gov. Butler will attend our commencement this year. Whatever may be the opinion in regard to the action of Harvard and the governor's answer, it will be remembered, as we have already stated, that Williams conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him when he had not become sufficiently prominent politically to warrant the idea that it was given for any other reason than for his eminence as a lawyer and his intellectual right to such a title. Indeed, we are proud to believe that the degrees of Williams have...
...February 26 the following answer was returned by the faculty...
...answer to this the president met the class informally, and, after stating his own opinion of the inexpediency of the reform aimed at, made the following communication from the faculty...
...questions involved in the use of "ponies" or litteral translations in the study of any language, are by no means easy to answer. With characteristic liberality, their use is often tolerated and even commended by many of the professors at Harvard. Indeed, when the object of a course is mainly literary and aims less at mere mental drill, it is difficult to see what objection can be urged to their use, and why their use does not result, on the whole, in a saving of time and labor. The traditional college training, with its strict academical customs, of course...