Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hunter, whose engaging, undergraduate manner and appearance belie his high attainments as an artist, stopped long enough to answer a question as to his opinion of how the play-goers of this country will accept a theme as thoroughly English as that of the "public school...
...current issue of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine is Professor Coolidge's answer, delivered in a speech at the Thirtieth Anniversary dinner of the Class...
...glad to answer these questions," declared Professor Coolidge, "and to testify that in many ways it is a much better college than the one which we left together...
...have shown no great signs of force of character? Why don't you appoint a certain number of natural leaders, class officers, men who have been recognized by their fellows for leadership and capacity? The undergraduates would be tremendously inspired by such men. There are two answers to this suggestion: the first is the simple one that these undergraduate supermen would not in general accept any position we could offer them; they would not make the sacrifices required by the academic life. And the second answer is this: thirty years ago Harvard was the largest university in the country. Today...
Asked whether he would run for Congress, if he were ousted from the Army at his coming court-martial, Colonel Mitchell made answer: "I am not thinking about politics . . . The first thing I'll do if ousted will be to take a prolonged hunting trip in Africa...