Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech in Chicago, last month, the President tried to show that farmers have not suffered from the present tariff. But his figures have been attacked. He said that the articles bought by farmers paid very little tariff, but the answer was made by those who argued last week, that the tariff tends to increase the general level of prices, and what the tariff costs the farmer cannot be gauged alone by the commodities on which he pays duty...
They wanted to answer "Yes," but their respect for their reputations kept them from committing themselves. What they were strongly inclined to believe was that the problem of surplus agricultural products and consequent low returns to farmers had become predominant. Already that issue has involved the dormant tariff issue...
...students tend to give back on blue-books merely what they are told, "the way to counteract such a tendency is to set questions that require thought more than memory." If cramming is indulged in beyond legitimate limits,--"The questions should not be susceptible of answer by merely committing to memory facts and formulate." How great a transformation would be wrought in Harvard examination papers by the serious application of this maxim...
President Lowell's stress on the value of examinations when properly administered is an answer to those who are inclined to be misled by the obvious evils into a blanket condemnation of the whole system. Yet undoubtedly the evils exist and serve to emphasize the statement that "The art of examination is still in its infancy...
...word. Upon the stone work of economic necessity, there undoubtedly sits a many-timbered structure which blends at its base, lacking uttenly such a precise boundary as oil has upon water. And delineation will remain far from exact until individual man can be sure of his own motives, can answer accurately. "Why did you vote (or speak or think or fight) thus...