Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your publication of Jan. 14, in connection with the endurance flight, you report the message "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark," and Mr. Davison's answer: "Good. Let's trim Elijah." You cite the feeding of Elijah by the ravens, and the prophet's ascension. Both are suggestive, and I shall not argue as to what the first sender had in mind. To me it suggested Elijah's flight from the queen when, fed by an angel he went forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount...
Name of Committee. Since European papers are already talking about the "Young Committee" and the "Young Plan," reporters asked Mr. Young why he insisted on referring to the new aggregation as the "Second Dawes Committee." The issue seemed one of cloying modesty, but Mr. Young shot back an answer clean as a pistol bullet...
...judges decide the winners of the case solely on the merit of their argument, based on four points: the structure of the briefs, the value of the cases cited, the oral presentation, and the ability to answer questions propounded by the judges. After the decision has been rendered on the basis outlined above, the judges customarily state what the law is, and what the decision would be were it to be tried in an actual court of justice...
...questions are contained on the card to be returned the first of which is "Do you want a Junior Prom" and the second. "Would you attend if there were one." Although an affirmative answer to the latter question is not to be considered a pledge, the class officers have appealed for careful consideration of it before signifying the preference, in order that the completed referendum may be a satisfactory test of the advisability of having a Junior Dance this year...
...declining to answer on behalf of the college the ridiculous Queries of a current questionnaire on "collegiatism" Dean Hanford has correctly foreseen the general attitude of the student body toward a national survey of such an unprofitable and tabloid nature. The majority of Harvard men can safely be exempted from any interest in the classification and further glorification of a phase of American college life which has flourished in direct proportion to the undesirable amount of publicity it has received from press and film...