Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accepted the constitution of a National Student Federation. Such organizations have been existing in nearly all the countries of Europe for several years and have shown great activity so that one may well ask why the students of American begin only now to participate in this movement. The answer, to my mind, is very simple: because the situation of students in Europe is essentially different from that in America and because the ground for such students unions was far better prepared...
...argued that this apathy is in itself a product of the attitude which pervades our entire educational system, that the student is rendered intellectually docile and unquestioning by that very authority which his audacity would combat. This is far from being a complete answer to the problem, however. It implies a very flattering estimate of the influence exerted by an educational system on the mental habits of its students. And no matter how great this might be, it must always be unimportant in comparison to the significance of the personal attitude involved. Until the student can stimulate in himself...
...lectures in a single course is a weary thing at best, but Professor Yeomans' subject at 9 o'clock this morning is just sufficiently related to last week's to tempt me. He will speak in Harvard 2 on "What is regulation of commerce?" Probably the most entertaining answer to this question, could be given by the Van Sweringen brothers...
...moments later, at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elysées, Carol sharply replied to questions as to whether he is about to resume his royal rank. He emitted a single sentence in six languages: "I cannot answer you!" His tormentors exulted over this "admission...
...William M. Mann, superintendent of the National Zoological Park at Washington. It had come to Mr. Chrysler's ears that disappointed children were in the habit of asking keepers in the Zoo: "Where's the giraffes? Where's a rhinoc'rus?" The answer was, "There aren't any. There isn't even a zebra here." The money that came forth was designated to effect the capture of giraffes, rhinoceroses, zebras and "anything else needed...