Word: answering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to answer definitely the numerous queries as to the stand which the University would take in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Germany, the following outline of the steps which have been taken in preparation for war was given out at the College Office yesterday afternoon...
...naturally ask, 'Why should the Entente Allies desire to draw China into the international maelstrom?' This is a question every intelligent man must answer in his own way. It is thought by some that Britain and France wish to engage freely a large number of Chinese laborers; this, however, they were free to do without the necessity of bringing China into the Entente group. She has no navy and her army is relatively a negligible quantity. In a word it seems easy to determine why China for her part should consent to a rupture of relations with Germany, but what...
...exist, except in a very few noteworthy cases. The University teas (stiff, unnatural functions that they are) are never largely attended. As for professors, only two or three, in the writer's knowledge, hold regular recep- tions where a student can come, listen to what is said, and answer for once like an original being according to his own thoughts. Some students, fortunate enough to get letters of introduction, may thus meet a professor or two on a little more intimate basis. But surely there is no approach at Harvard to the easy familiarity of the Oxonian with the Fellows...
...Americans. It is only seven years since the 1910 Monthly board was in College. If their writing had then been scrutinized with a view to what the writers would do in such an emergency as that to which the world has come, what would the prophecy have been? The answer is so uncertain that one hesitates to draw any conclusions from the contents of the March number...
Until further notice Weld 3 will be kept open as a bureau of information on military matters from 9 to 5 daily. One of the staff officers or a noncommissioned officer will always be in charge between these hours and will answer all questions pertaining to the Reserve Officers' Training Unit...