Word: answering
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...life goes on, the Archbishop said, we constantly learn that it is not always the good questions that get the most immediate answers, and it is not necessarily a good thing to get an immediate answer, provided the question is so put as to make us think. When he was a schoolboy his master, whom he at that time thought a not very wise schoolmaster, used to ask him in which century and in which country he would most have preferred to live. Although at that time his answers varied and were inconsistent, he was sure now. The century would...
...Deficit: How to Meet It," by M. Reed '68, and another by A. L. Lowell '77 on "Dormitories and College Life," "The University in its Relations to Cambridge," by G. H. Cox shows how Cambridge is benefited by the presence of the University, and should do much to answer criticism of the University's untaxed land. Interesting statistics, showing the beneficial effects of rowing, are embodied in "Harvard University Oarsmen" by S. L. Meylan S.'02. Among the University notes, which, together with news from the graduates, and other regular departments, complete an instructive issue of the magazine, there appears...
...reply to your request for an expression of opinion on the subject of applause at games, let me say that my answer to the question whether to cheer or not to cheer would be in the affirmative. The difficulty in the matter seems to me to be not so much with reference to the existence of applause, as to the kind of applause and its application. The elaborate system of cheering which is now carried to its logical conclusion by the complete division of the rival camps of spectators into consecutive or continuous vocal bands, is only one illustration...
...answer papers will be transmitted directly to the examiners at Oxford, and from the successful candidates a Rhodes Scholar will be elected by the Committee of Selection. The results will be announced in about a month...
...nomination ballots the following question has been put which voters are requested to answer: Do you think it advisable to have the undergraduate dues of the Union put on the term-bill, if it could be arranged...