Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected that the Library Council will issue an official statement in the near future in answer to the attack
...Significance. Mr. Galsworthy's method has always been to propound a question, wrap it up in a story, present both sides with equal eloquence, and then not answer it. In this case, the question has something to do with the relative values of the post-War generation and those that came before it. As fiction, this volume is not in its author's happiest vein. It is the latest and probably the least interesting addition to that formidable series, The Forsyte Saga. Mr. Galsworthy neither knows nor understands completely the society he is discussing. He is not himself...
Princeton, N. J., November 4,--"Will Slagle outplay and outkick Hammond on Saturday?" is one of the principal questions supporters of the Orange and Black are asking in any discussion over the outcome of the clash on Saturday. Princeton adherents answer "Yes!", but Tiger scouts who have seen the Harvard back in action are not committing themselves so definitely...
...Fosdick expressed his thanks from the pulpit for the personal good-will shown by the proposals in the letter. He promised to send the officers his answer within a week...
...genesis of the college "bluff" has been traced to its remote psychological roots in the insistence throughout early education upon a prompt answer of any sort, rather than an honest "I don't know." The current Educational Review points out that a wrong answer counts no more against a student than inability to answer at all. From the beginning students are encouraged to write "something", whether they know anything or not. This dangerous facility is carried into college, and the student, trained unconsciously in this form of intellectual immorality, develops the art of bluffing to its highest degree...