Word: answer
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...blended stocks, sentiment and humor with rare skill. The play is a satire brightly and wittily written, which possesses a serious vein for effective dramatic interest. For the second and last week Mr. Robson will offer his new comedy, "Is Marriage a Failure?" a query he will most amusingly answer...
...whole foregoing analysis of Reality and Truth can defend itself against an ultinate skepicism, which should question how any conscious being can in any wise escape from his in her life as such, and know any truth, real or ideal beyond his private consciousness. The essentially Kantian answer is suggessel, that in fact no self really escapes or even means to escape from the world of its own true selfconsciousness, in the act of knowing truth; but that. never the less, the world of the Self is not the world of the private and momentary, but of the true...
...class races this fall has added a considerable interest to their crew. Except for the freshmen the '93 crew has been the first to begin training again. On the first of this month notice was given that the crew would begin training; and about thirty candidates turned up in answer to this notice. Hardly any of the men have ever been in the boat. None of those that rowed in the class races last May, or in the race with Columbia have begun training yet. Of the men that rowed in the race this fall there are three now working...
Very soon after this letter was written another letter appeared in the Post from an instructor in a preparatory school. He does not pretend to answer all of President Warren's arguments; he devotes himself mainly to the point of the alleged easy requirements for admission to Harvard. He says that he cannot find the "provisions for maxima and minima" of which President Warren speaks. He finds that there are four groups of subjects allowed at admission examinations and that the differences between these groups have mainly to do with Latin and Greek. Otherwise the requirements are pretty rigid...
President Warren wrote a short answer to this letter, merely reasserting his statement that the admission examinations at Harvard were easier than in other colleges, and protesting against making the A. B. (Harv.) worth 75 per cent. of its old value...