Word: respective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is danger that President Eliot's originality and independence may be obscured by the very completeness of his success. To the new generation he is one of the great figures of the educational world, and his words are listened to with the respect which is given to one of established reputation...
...dealers in non-essentials have been very active in obstructing much-needed regulation and in opposing economics which are absolutely necessary. Advertising sheets, commonly called newspapers, have persistently fostered the vicious idea that there are no non-essential industries, and have successfully defended a "laissez faire" policy with respect to their own profiteering. There have also been strikes and threats of strikes on the part of various labor organizations, even against the better wisdom and advice of their national organizations...
...munitions. But it is now appreciated that the maintenance of the standards of our amateur athletics is of great importance as an auxiliary to war. It is far better to develop the boys "back home" for future service than to permit the quality of games to retrograde out of respect for the men who have gone to the front. The youthful tennis player or the freshman or sophomore ball player of today is the soldier of tomorrow. --Boston Transcript...
...much better material for an officers' camp if he has an opportunity such as this to gain the regular army spirit. In addition, an officer who has lived among the men as one of them will be more able to understand and appreciate them, and therefore to command their respect. Finally we must not sneer at the added training which we will receive; there are in the cantonments two features which cannot be obtained at a college camp; perfect equipment and the best instruction...
...hundred and four years the United States and Canada have lived side by side without mutual fear or suspicion; may their relation in the future be marked not only by this absence of friction, but by the positive qualities of strong mutual amity and respect...