Word: esteem
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe, this initial donation is but the first step in a drive for richer and more profitable results in education, it will tend toward the eventual raising of the whole standard of American education,' and of the esteem in which. American schoolmasters and instructors are held. Certainly thanks are due for this generous appropriation to Mr. John D. Rockefeller and the General Educational Board of which he is chairman, from all college men who are interested in the broad subject of American culture...
...question. Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should be bent toward reconstruction, and a resumption of the ways of peace...
...proposed League of Nations must inevitably arouse considerable feeling, but is it not somewhat hasty to impugn suddenly shallowness to a man who has hitherto been accredited with sincerity if nothing else. The Latin heading ("She transit gloria Lodge") itself shows that Mr. Gallishaw once held the Senator in esteem...
...Gibbs also mentioned the esteem in which our soldiers were held in England and ended by saying that "the British have a strong respect for the American universities and in their behalf I greet Harvard with the greatest reverence...
Tomorrow the entire nation will pay reverence to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. The universality of the tribute exemplifies better than words the great recognition and esteem which America accorded to him during his life time. It is a mere question of months until a permanent memorial will be erected to commemorate his great service to the nation; but the consecration to his memory tomorrow shows that his name is "written upon the hearts of men" where it will remain imperishable...