Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...charge is made that a new and gorgeous gambling-house has been opened in Boston, designed by its keeper to answer the particular requirements of Harvard College students. The selfish interest of the college alone would seem to require the immediate closing of that particular gambling-house by the police. There is a new college year to begin in a few months. - [N. Y. Tribune...
...view" made us wish to camp up there for a week and live on the scenery. We say with the Advocate that the tower should be opened. However, we might wait until the few necessary repairs are made - a few hundred dollars' worth. The Advocate asks three questions in answer to the reasons given by the faculty for closing the tower: "Why could not the part to be opened to visitors be kept clean? Why could not smoking be strictly forbidden? Why could not extra insurance rates be met by charges for each person?" We would respectfully re-enforce...
...concerts at least a year, besides making extended trips from city to city. Thus the Princeton club has visited New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore this winter, and we have had the pleasure of hearing the Yale concert in Boston. On the other hand, the managers of our clubs may answer that the unexpressed wishes of the music-lovers in college do not lead them to expect a liberal support, nor justify them in giving more frequent exhibitions. We think they are wrong, as the college at large would be only too glad to show its approval of their efforts...
...thought so much about that line of words in the catalogue, that I so breathed into them an individuality, a soul, that Benjamin Emilius became one of my daily companions during those last autumn days when the leaves fall and the bursar rejoices in a fresh opportunity to answer numerous and voluminous questions with that laconic brevity so characteristic of that functionary...
...herbarium, found a specimen of the fruit of a plant of which nothing was known. From this fruit he founded a genus, described and classified the unseen flower, and when, many years after, the plant was rediscovered in the mountains of North Carolina, the flower was found to answer his description in almost every particular. - [Scholastic...