Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...answer it again...
...gave a non-commital answer...
...That answer with a smile of luminous peace...
...liberty to print, - a note which proclaims him as much a gentleman as the efforts of his defamers proclaim them the opposite. The author of "Heliotrope" and "A Hopeless Case," to say nothing of his witty satires, cannot but have a future before him that will be the best answer to the abuse of the Yale editors...
...outsider is allowed to, we find that the facts are as follows : One man in the Honor examinations obtained an average of marks five per cent higher than any one else; he certainly deserved Highest Honors. Now whether others deserved them too, or not, depends upon the answer to one question, and that is this : Have the Faculty a certain fixed per cent, the attainment of which, under any and all circumstances, gives Highest Honors; or is the per cent of the best man taken as the maximum, and all other per cents required to be within a certain number...