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Word: question (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...attention has been attracted by the general dissatisfaction given by the marks for the last hour examination in Natural History 3. It appears that the examination was made up of one long general question and several shorter ones. The instructor stated that a student could attain the maximum mark by devoting his attention to the first question. Many confined themselves to this one question. Others wrote part of the time on the first, and then answered some of the other questions. On looking over the books the instructor marked them on a scale of 100 for the first question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

WHETHER the question is looked at from a religious or from a utilitarian standpoint, the conclusion reached is always the same, namely, that it is best that one day in seven be given up to rest. If by opening the Library on Sunday the student is encouraged to distribute his work over seven days instead of six, then the change is not a beneficial, but an injurious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHALL THE HARVARD LIBRARY BE OPEN ON SUNDAY? | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...question of opening our Library Sunday is to be distinguished from the broad question of opening city libraries on that day. The working-man may, and doubtless does, find in the change from the noisy workshop to the quiet library and from manual to mental labor a real rest. Again, a city library reaches a class of the community which the church has not reached, - a class which needs just such help as a library can give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHALL THE HARVARD LIBRARY BE OPEN ON SUNDAY? | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...know, of course, that it is not "the thing" ever to show the least excitement, wear spring-bottomed trousers, - or a thousand other things. The more important question is, What is "the thing"? and this we have never been able to solve, though we, like many others, have devoted our life to that end. Some say, "not to study"; others, "to dress well"; the Freshmen think they have found it at the Howard: but the general opinion seems now to indicate light ulsters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE THING." | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...never seen. They knew I was watching them; for I heard the light-haired one ask the other if I were not a student. The dark one appeared not to hear, at which the light one seemed to feel rebuffed, as if she had asked a forbidden question. She stopped laughing so merrily, and presently said the ice was n't at all nice in a rink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT TWO FATHERS THOUGHT. | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

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