Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accompanying it to fires. The second supposition, however, would seem to be the more probable, since it shows up in the light of self-interest this tendency to respond to alarms. Every student who rooms in the older dormitories in the yard knows that it is only a question of time when he may be compelled to rush for his life from his blazing building. He trains himself, therefore, for the inevitable crisis by getting out-of-doors as soon as possible at the sound of the alarm bells. Moreover, he does not allow his training to stop at this...
...catechising his class one day on the ancient history of his native country. "When did Theodophilus live?" he asked of one sophomore. "Before Christ." "Wrong!" shouted the professor. And then the next sophomore: "When did Theodophilus live?" "After Christ." "Wrong!" shouted the professor again. And then he repeated the question to the third student: "When did Theodophilus live?" "Neither before nor after Christ!" "You are right, young man!" said the professor. "There never was any such man as Theodophilus." It was one of the little historical traps that Sophocles liked to set for the budding wisdom of Harvard. - Boston Record...
...uses and responsibilities of leisure," the subject of Mr. Lodge's lecture this evening, is a subject that is certain to appeal to college men, alike to the active and to the inactive. The subject is specially appropriate for the closing lecture of a course on the professions. The question of spending times of leisure properly and profitably is almost as important as that of finding a vocation and pursuing it successfully. The term "leisure" has come to have two very different meanings. One man of leisure is never idle; another always is. The former makes his leisure...
...question of a new bridge across the Charles, which has now lain dormant some time, is being again agitated, and the work will probably begin this season...
...this confidence by combining to put the law of social contempt and condemnation upon a practice, which has more than once been eagerly caught up by those jealous of the increasing reputation of Harvard to vent their spleen against the university. All would doubtless be indignant were the question made that there is a lower standard of manly honor and truth at Harvard, than at Oxford and Cambridge in England. Yet, unless this practice of "cribbing" or anything at all approaching to it, is promptly crushed out, Harvard will be justly liable to that offensive charge. It is a well...