Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fairly general declaration in favor of better swimming facilities was the feature of the answer to the question. "What advantages do you think you ought to have found at Harvard which you have failed to find?" One facetious Senior wails. "I shouldn't have flunked out," while another replies. "Exclusive use of a fast roadster...
Apprehension. Mrs. Catt, the leader, made the chief speech: "Why don't women vote? What's wrong with the political parties? Why aren't there more women in the Legislature? Why aren't women more effective in politics?" These were her sombre, rhetorical questions. Her answer: "I wish Mrs. Hert and Mrs. Blair would call a mass meeting to find out. . . . The old National American Suffrage Association will pay one-third of the expenses." Her other points...
Meantime, in answer to U. S. criticism, iit was stated semi-officially that France had no intention of overlooking her debt to the U. S.; but, as Britain is willing to accept a sum from friend and foe on the Continent sufficient to pay her debt to the U. S., France is obliged to ascertain exactly what her commitments to Britain are before con sidering her obligations...
Will the obvious answer to each these problems prove the best remedy or the situation? It seems logical that increasing the number of tutors would settle the first difficulty. Yet, if enough were added to warrant the endeavor, a substantial outlay would be necessary. Furthermore, competent teachers are not always available. It is therefore plain that an extension of the tutorial system must take place over a prolonged period of time. However, that it is the aim of the Faculty at Harvard to make the extension of the system one of its primary objects is to be inferred from President...
Some time has elapsed since I wrote you of my disappointing investigation among the Prophezzors at Dravrah. The interval has been spent in observing these young men, the Satellities, who seem to hold the answer to this riddle of education which so puzzles me. I have employed my greatest tact and affability to win the confidence of the leading spirits among them. I have gained insight into features of their life which to a more outsider would remain forever impenetrable. I have watched, and noted, and thought; and my bewilderment increases...