Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent issue of one of the daily papers of Boston, a prominent professor in the classical department of the university, published an appeal for money to support the American School at Athens. For years we have heard from all sides in answer to our re-current plea for various improvements in the college buildings, the cry of "no money." And "no money" it will doubtless be, until Gore Hall falls a mass of ruins upon the spot which it has failed to enlighten. We feel some-what like the friends of our religious home missions when told of the success...
Prof. MacVane will be in Massachusetts Hall from 10 to 11, to answer questions in History...
...lecture was an earnest attempt to show how the head and heart can work together and furnish an answer to the question "What can be done in solution of the Social Problem?" There is the old school of political economy which considers that the so-called natural laws of labor and capital are not to be controlled by human agency. The new or ethical school considers political economy an ethical and moral science. The ground we should take is one between these two. Sympathy, years of agitation, legislature have been the factors in lightening the load of evils with which...
...side of Portland a student resident, Mr. F. H. Whipple, '88, introduced to the first car-load the Mayor of that city, who gave encouraging reports of what might be expected. Anxious inquiries as to the quality of the water, an important matter in Maine, brought forth a reassuring answer, and the Mayor left with a cordial invitation to both societies to call at his house in Portland...
...grind. The lamp in which Epictetus burned his midnight oil is even now on exhibition in the British Museum along side of the Elgin Marbles. It is as large as a barrel. But to be a grind is it necessary to be a genius? I will not answer this. Victor Hugo says somewhere that it is a tres grande thing to be a bold, bad man. Now a grind is never a bold, bad man. He is just the opposite. He can give you the length in parasangs of Xenephon's march to the sea; he can sketch...