Word: answering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...next few days Phillips Brooks House will conduct an information bureau for the benefit of new students in the House office on the first floor from 8 A. M. until 5 P. M. A committee of members of the association will be in charge and willing to answer any questions as to buildings, whereabouts of officers of instruction and government, streets, etc. Circulars, maps of Cambridge and departmental pamphlets may be had upon application. The reading, writing and study rooms are at the service of all new students. Parcels and small baggage may be left in care of the committee...
...Illustrated presents as its leading article a discussion of Harvard's athletic budget. This article is in a sense an answer to Dean Briggs's criticism of college athletics in general in the last annual report of the Athletic Committee. Mr. Gill has gone over the figures for 1909-10, and presents a great number of them, more or less digested, in a long series of tables. His general conclusion is that if we will grant the legitimacy and wisdom of "the whole policy of modern, organized athletics . . . over $122,000 of the $127,000 . . . was carefully and purposely spent...
...Union will be open to all contestants after 11 o'clock this morning and there will be some one there to answer questions. Luncheon, at 50 cents, will be served for those who wish it. After the meet, at 5.30 o'clock, a dinner will be given the competitors in the Assembly Room of the Union. H. L. Gaddis '12 will preside and speeches will be made by R. T. Fisher '12, R. C. Floyd '11, R. C. Foster '11, and L. Withington, Jr., '11. At the dinner W. F. Garcelon L.'95 will present the medals to the point...
...lack of knowledge is due to simple neglect, it should be corrected. Every intelligent person should be acquainted with the Bible; every cultivated man should be interested in it. The difficulty seems to lie in the question, whether the study of the Bible can be separated from religion. To answer in the affirmative seems like stating a paradox. This fact, however, seems clear: that religion may be left in the background, with the idea of literature in the front. As literature the Bible has an almost universal appeal. Bible classes are not crowded, because every man feels that here...
...stimulus to better College work. The whole question, then, resolves itself into this simple form; is not the sacrifice of enduring a certain amount of unjust criticism a cheap price to pay for a very considerable elevation of the academic standard? To our minds there can be but one answer...