Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when asked by a stern examiner what he would recommend in order to produce copious perspiration in a patient, replied, "I'd make him try to pass an examination before you, sir!" had a keen sense of humor, which it is to be hoped the examiner appreciated. His answer was in keeping with the question which has been argued by us and by others, whether the whole subject of examinations, as at present conducted, should not be thoroughly overhauled and revised. - [Chamber's Journal...
...Times man, it is easily seen, is a miserable Philistine, whose narrow, minded prejudices should receive no mercy at the hands of an impartial public. His sophisms are too transparent to require an answer...
...John LeConte, ex-president of the University of California; President Angeil of the University of Michigan; President Beach of Wesleyan University; President Warren of Boston University; President Fairchild of Oberlin College; Mrs. Louis Agassiz, on the development of the Harvard Annex, and others. These letters were written in answer to questions sent out by the association to the presidents of several American universities where co-education is in operation. The effect of co-education was asked on the standard of scholarship, the manners and morals of both sexes, and the health of women students, and whether young men had been...
...answer to this statement the lecturer suggested that progress can be a religiously encouraging fact only in case it is an essential, not a purely accidental feature of realty. But the progress that science discovers in the world is a local and transient fact, occurring at a particular stage in the process of the cooling of the solar system certain, in so far as we can judge to end before long altogether. If it be replied that progress, ceasing here, may reach a higher stage in some other planet, or in some other solar or stellar system, the lecturer insisted...
...what can we say, then, of the eternal nature of the world? To answer this question, said the lecturer, we must re-examine the assumptions on which the scientific conception of the world is founded. One of these assumptions was taken up and an analysis of this assumption was sketched. We assume in all discussions about the world that there is a difference between the truth of a statement and its falsity. But a statement is true by reason of its agreement with its object, and here arises a difficulty...