Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Under LETTERS in your issue of Sept. 28, your answer to Mr. Barlow Henderson's letter regarding the calling of a Negro "Mr." is really funny. The first paragraph of Mr. Carl E. Guthe's letter (on same page) seems to fit your case quite adequately : "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise...
Turner and J. R. Fordyce will be available for relief work against Holy Cross, but Nash and Daley may be confined to the sidelines. Saltonstall is physically fit, and is sure to answer to the opening whistle tomorrow...
...Frederick Dunworth will answer these questions tonight in the living room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Dunworth, long famous as an exposer of fake mediums will talk before a Harvard audience tonight, dealing with the problems of spirit photography, table raising, reading by the aid of crystal gazing, and many others...
...writing, the genial "colyumist" warns the writing profession to stand by its guns--or pens. No writer can at will become a Walter Johnson or a Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle of those who from East and West, from North and South respond to the pull of the printed page...
...Osborne's lecture of last winter on "Crime and Criminals", raised much dissension among criminal experts of Boston and Cambridge, several of whom suggested that someone should answer the charges and statements made by the speaker. Accordingly, Captain Ainsley R. Armstrong of the Boston Police Department was mentioned to the Phillips Brooks House as a worthy opponent for Mr. Osborne in a debate to be held on the date of his approaching lecture...