Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...optimist and states in strong and, I do not doubt, sincere words her belief that war will disappear. ... I do not share that optimism nor do I think that a philosophic view of the world would regard war as absurd, but most people who have known it regard it with horror...
...reading some cynical books" and in the same "criticism" tells us that "the surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously, instead of ignoring it as the students do themselves." But perhaps Mr. Long really believes what he has written is not the "bother of adults" and regards his "editorial" precisely as the students of Harvard regard it: merely a collection of meaningless invective abuse...
Popular recognition and public gratitude to the officials in charge of examinations has never been wide the very nature of the office prevents such a possibility. But there is a kind of silent regard in the breasts of all for the proctor who recognizes his grave responsibilities to his examinees, and above all does not giggle upon first looking at the papers which in a minute or two he will distribute among anxious hands...
...treaty, most of their citizens take it for granted that that is that; that the proper state authorities will thereafter see to it that the treaty is recorded, remembered, honored, enforced -or abrogated if necessity impels. Not so lightly do 186 British and U. S. ministers and educators regard the so-called Kellogg Treaty lately solemnized in Paris between the U. S., Britain and 13 other nations, renouncing war. The 186, deeming this a super-treaty worthy of super-ratification, signed and last week issued a super-pledge called a "British-American Message to the Churches and to All People...
Somehow there seems to be something wrong with attributing Harvard's "greatness" to a preoccupation with sartorial expertness and a will to "belong". Most of the current criticism in regard to this institution centers around its familiar indifference to the press of the trousers or the shine on the shoes. It is true that a large number of men do shave daily but it is hardly to this that they owe the remarkable front which has apparently enabled them to get away with murder for the past three hundred years. To become really serious about the matter, however...