Word: responded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford: "Both branches of the Nebraska Legislature invited me to come to their State and develop its waterpower. I am usually ready to respond to the call of the people...
With the finish nearing rapidly, Amory raised the beat, Brown failed to respond with an equally telling pace, and the Junior shell commenced its gruelling advance to the front position with three-quarters of a length of water to make up. The seconds with now a chance for victory, rowed in perfect unison which combined with the rapid stroke produced an immediate effect. Inch by inch the Junior eight fought its way to even terms, and by a burst of almost superlative rowing broke into a lead of a full half length which they maintained...
Nevertheless, China must sooner, or later respond to the positive influence of a commercial world which offers itself. The question is, will she gain or suffer thereby? The author barely intimates that commercialism and contact with the West will spell her ruin, even as materialistic progress spelled ruin for the other great civilizations of history. This argument deserves weight, but clearly falls to envisage all the facts. The picture painted of a peaceful country sufficient unto itself falls to show in the background the squalor and poverty of the basic population, the bare existence in normal times and the plagues...
There would seem prima facie to be no good cause for not instituting some reform immediately. The subject has been approached several times before without effect, and on each occasion, no reasons have been given for the failure to respond to a not inconsiderable demand for change. The CRIMSON urges strongly, that the faculty consider before the next term opens the advisability of allowing seniors who will be eligible for a degree if they pass three courses at the end of the next half year, the privilege of taking only that number of courses...
...first question asked Mr. Markham was what qualities he thought constituted a real poet. "A real poet must first of all be a real man, he must be a man with ideals, noble emotions, and sensitive organisms which respond quickly to the beauties and wonders of the world. He must have a profound mind, so that he has a big philosophy of life; for every great poet is also a great philosopher, and yet he does not put his philosophy before us in the form of a Kant, a William James, or a Josiah Royce. For these men deal largely...