Word: esteem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter I am not sure that he knows that General Pershing and Vice President Dawes, held commissions in the A. E. F. They did, however, and I know they will be glad to tell him that his letter is absurd. Anyone that reads at all knows in what esteem these two men hold Mr. Baker...
...Popular tradition considerably exagerates the young graduate's self-esteem", says Mr. Crawford, "but such cockiness may be in no small degree, attributed to the attitude of prospective employers". Commencement issues of the Lampoon notwithstanding, the graduate has never failed to recognize that the importance of the words, "baccalaureate" and "job" is in inverse proportion to their length. He has at last the foundation of a plan by which the success of his life may be less frequently jeopardized...
...Chicago opened her abdomen and removed several bothersome adhesions. She felt no pain and, upon awakening, experienced none of the nauseating after-effects of usual anesthetics. Such operations upon hypnotized patients are rare in the U. S. In Europe (notably in France and Germany) they are frequent. Europeans esteem the uses of hypnotism. They used it for surgical operations 100 years ago. The discovery in 1848 of chloroform's anesthetic properties curtailed the practice somewhat. But, notably at Nancy, France, hypnotism continued in operating rooms...
...Coleridge, Esq. with the love, regard and esteem of his obliged and grateful friend." These words, signed "J. Watson", appear upon the fly leaf of one of the most interesting books in the Treasure Room of Widener Library, a book received yesterday from the library of the late Norton Perkins '98. For this volume, the library has had printed a book blate bearing the following inscription: "In memory of Norton Perkins '98, and in honor of John Livingston Lowes and his 'Road to Xanadu...
...Norton was one of the most famous characters of "old Cambridge." The unique and forceful personality that made him one of the greatest of nineteenth century teachers and a triumphant torchbearer in the elevation of fine arts to a high place not only in educational curricula but in public esteem put his name among those of Harvard's best-known sons, where it will long be secure. Changing Cambridge has long since swept away "Norton's Woods," and not even the name remains to designate the residential district across Kirkland Street. But Harvard, and the educational and artistic worlds, remember...