Word: answering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...convincing answer to the doubters can be readily made by anyone who realizes fully the modern demands of education and that Harvard University is not so adequately equipped for the physical development of its students as a great University in this country should be. The tradition of an academy and of a cultured ideal are most valuable possessions for a university, but in these radio-active days, the higher thinkers need a different training from that followed at the time of Aristotle...
This is the challenge that has come from Yale through the Yale Daily News, and it is a challenge that we cannot overlook. Tonight the College will show what it thinks of the challenge. Our answer to it now is that the team that beat Princeton will be a match for Yale. If that is what undergraduates believe, we shall know it by their spirit tonight...
...leaders, even business men are continually wondering why more of us do not go into the distinctly honorable calling of the diplomat. They seldom wonder at the fact that many do go into the calling, in spite of the irregularity of tenure and the pitifully small remuneration. And the answer to the problem is so simple that its simplicity has probably caused it to be overlooked: In this country, almost alone of the great nations, the service is caught in such a mesh of politics, is so far removed from the real advantages of the civil service that men cannot...
There is little need here of a disquisition on the merits of physical exercise in general and the sport of rowing in particular. Most men know them; those who do not, should learn. If they fail to answer the call, they are either neglectful or do not understand. The opportunity, if you are new, to be trained in rowing by experienced coaches; if you are an old devotee, to be improved; the opportunity under the supervision of these coaches to work up to the University squad is one which occurs in the fall of the year as at no other...
...Gifford, of Brookline, will be in charge o fthe Junior group, meeting on Mondays at 6.45 o'clock, and his plan will be to answer questions which are handed in to him from week to week, basing his remarks on the Bible and its teaching...