Word: answering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College awake to itself? Is the University run for the Faculty or for the students? What are other institutions doing which we might well adopt? Is our lazy satisfaction warranted? A live magazine, such as Harvard has the ability and the duty to maintain, should answer these questions, not in a spirit of chronic protest, but with the idea of arousing undergraduate interest in College affairs other than football, and of expressing this opinion for the service of the authorities. One of the undergraduate papers is already committed to this policy, another has the equally important aim of preserving...
...obliged to, and if so how much? In other words, is it the business of the College to let him use his time as he pleases, or to cram an education down his throat? This is a difficult question which the CRIMSON is not altogether prepared to answer definitely, but we are inclined to think that the average student would prosper fully as well if a little more knowledge were forced down. This is a question on which we should be glad to hear further discussion...
...worth preserving I am not so sure; but the articles on matters of immediate interest to Harvard men, of which the number is almost wholly made up, are certainly just now very much worth while. They express and stimulate ideas, and this statement is high praise. Dean Castle's answer to Mr. Lippmann's objections to the Freshman dormitory scheme is exactly what we have long been hoping for: a public defence, from a man intimately acquainted with the facts and conditions, of one of the most important and far-reaching changes made by the new administration. Dean Castle...
...here in America, and especially in New York, in nine cases out of ten, one cannot get a civil answer to a civil question. In Europe the reverse is the rule and often mere strangers will go quite out of their way to do what to us would seem an extraordinary act of courtesy...
...closing Mr. Smith defined a polite man as one who would answer a strange lady civilly when she questioned him on the street; a good-mannered man, as one who would take off his hat to her; but a courteous one as one who would go out of his way to see her across the street...