Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...answer to the objection raised by the correspondent of the Advertiser against the revoking of degrees by the corporation of Harvard has appeared. If, says this rejoinder, the degrees are voted subject to an expressly reserved power of revocation remaining in the corporation, or even deputed by the corporation to the faculty, no authority on earth could compel the delivery up to a riotous graduate of his diploma after the reserved power of revocation had been exercised. . . . The writer assumes that the college intends to vote degrees absolutely, and then to take them away, and it is on this assumption...
...other cries, we are told, there were shouts of "Bad for Harvard!" Compare this with the comment of the Spectator on Lord Carnarvon's statement that "three-fourths of the literary power of the country and four-fifths of the intellectual ability" were on the Conservative side, and the answer by a writer in the Times giving a long list of eminent liberals. The Spectator says, "Neither assertion nor rejoinder matters a straw. The transfer of power, under our modern system, is not left to professors, but to those whom they scarcely influence at all." - [N. Y. Post...
Later - A telegram has been sent to the Yale freshmen, endeavoring to arrange a game for tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon. No answer has yet been received by Capt. Woodbury...
...letter has been received from Harvard acknowledging Yale's challenge, but no definite answer was returned, inasmuch as time is required in which to discuss the conditions of next year's race.-[Courant...
...review of an extended history of Bowdoin College, which has just been published, the Advertiser says: "Such a history as that of Bowdoin is an answer to the inquiry raised not seldom, What end is answered by a country college? The consolidation of the smaller institutions, though they have lived long and honorably, with the colleges whose wealth and high fame command the patronage of the country, is lightly urged. There are cheap colleges by the dozen in America, some of them not worth consolidating with any reputable institution. But New England country colleges, like Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst...