Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this question we have never heard the answer. It may be the policy or the unauthorized habit of the university never to percuss too thoroughly the heart of an enterprise which presents itself clothed in an adequate endowment or perhaps the college has considered that it was safer in the long run to tame such a dangerous little animal within its own menagerie rather than allow it to run wild in the world; or it may even be possible that Harvard feels the pulse of modern life and is willing to experiment with a branch of learning which may have...
...then proceed on his own fuel. Once the taste of blood, always a hunter. Let a man once smack his lips on abnormal psychology and it will lead him to the end of his days on a hunt through all the cultural activities of man to find an answer to his questions. For abnormal psychology, since it deals with all extremes of human activity, the mind behaviour of the criminal as well as the rotarian and the genius, ramifies into all attitudes and objectifications of the human soul. It is preoccupied with hysteria and visions, hence religious conversions, hence ecstasy...
...those with an intellectual complex, a pecuniary complex, an athletic complex, or a combination of these complexes, and finally, those with no complexes at all. Which is predominant is a matter open to question. To which did Mr. Seldes belong? Judging from his college record I shall decline to answer for fear of incurring his enmity. Nevertheless how can he, even though he had a rather broad view as a member of the Socialist club, from his group position give a picture of Harvard? He displays absolute lack of knowledge of the other five. During his college career he mingled...
...only be said that the Gandhi boycott of several years ago was a serious but not fatal blow to Great Britain's vital trade with India. Whether a more effective boycott could be staged next year is a question for Hindu Gods-and Mohammed's Allah-to answer. Last week the Subjects Committee of the Indian National Congress put Saint Gandhi's ultimatum on the agenda by a decisive vote...
...Sherlock Holmes and Cleopatra; Mrs. Noah, Sappho, Charon, Josephine and Sir Walter Raleigh-all the Bangsian characters come on deck to sing somewhat Gilbertian songs and utter up-to-the-hour Times Squarese. Blanche Ring as Queen Elizabeth shouts, when someone offers her a drink: "Swine!" "No," is the answer, " 'sapplejack." Its first evening, The Houseboat on the Styx mounted at moments to hilarity. Its songs, while not entirely novel, were cheering...