Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Somebody wonders why seniors are always so worried and pale and care-worn during the spring term. We would not hazard our reputation on the answer, but the Patsies and Susies of the Sem might give some reliable information on this point...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There has appeared in the columns of your paper a communication from R. B., attacking the Glee Club in a manner that requires answering; and it is perhaps well that the answer be made by one who, while himself not a member of the club, is yet interested in its welfare. To answer the last and least important objection first, the Glee Club, to my certain knowledge, was never asked to furnish a quartette at the Pi Eta theatricals. Individual members were approached and were finally obliged to refuse to sing on account of the bad condition...
...lecture last night was principally an answer to Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." Gen. Walker first commented on the position taken by Mr. Mill in his later years on the land tenure question, and then gave a complete statement of Mr. George's theory of rent and the nationalization of the land. As to Mr. George's three great arguments, he affirms that commercial disturbances are due to speculations in land. This assertion, however, has no evidence to support it, and is opposed to the opinions of all economists. Land is far from being an object peculiarly subject...
...Senator Kellogg has been given until Wednesday to answer to the indictment against him. It will be pressed vigorously...
...itself. In this connection we would suggest to the committee a consideration of the style of fence which is to surround the new athletic grounds at Yale. This consists of a thickly planted hedge of sufficient height closely flanked by a barbed wire fence. Such a fence would certainly answer all purposes, and would besides meet very well several of the objections urged against an ordinary board fence. Any additional expense which might be incurred by such a plan would, we feel sure, be cheerfully met by the college. Indeed, when we consider how much more has been raised...