Word: answering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current number of the Advocate irresistibly suggests a conundrum asking the reason for its likeness to the Collection of Western Art in the Boston Museum. The answer is obvious; each contains one work of marked excellence relieved against productions of more or less ordinary merit. The extraordinary object in the Boston Museum is the Greek throne; the thing of distinction in the Advocate is Mr. Alken's poem...
...Spreckels, of San Francisco, and a millionaire in his own name. Shortly after coming of age, he became interested in the gas company of San Francisco. Upon looking into its affairs, he found it corrupt in its relations with the city council and its own shareholders. The latter in answer to an appeal from Mr. Spreckels, threw out the old board of directors and elected his reform ticket. As president of the First National Bank of San Francisco, he saw and studied finance and politics from the inside...
...University Chorus, which has been meeting Monday nights at 8 in the Fogg Lecture Room under Professor Max Friedlaender, of Berlin University, is perhaps the most practical answer that has yet been given to the question, "How can we get better football songs?" The problem of football songs is one of general musical appreciation, and this has been impossible without some general centre of musical activity open to all who enjoy singing and can give only a little time to it. Professor Friedlaender has consented to organize such a centre, a rather formidable undertaking in a university which is regarded...
...hold. But has the University ever had any influence on the plan of study in such institutions? When it is seen that more than half the public high schools of Massachusetts have not sent to Harvard a single boy in ten years, it is clear that the true answer is negative. The great mass of high schools throughout the country do their own work in their own way, regardless of the regulations of admission to Harvard or any other college...
...doubt that whichever way we look at it this remodelling is illegal. We have already stated that we consider the proposed altered make-up of the Council excellent, but that is no reason why the new constitution should be hastily and illegally adopted, imperfections and all. The answer to the fourth paragraph of the communication is that the members of the old nominating committee have long outlived their rights as such, whereas the ex-officiis members provided for in the constitution submitted, if it were accepted, would be the most logical body through which to make the necessary nominations...