Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard. It was this early influence in part that sent them into the face of danger to defend what they personally considered a worthy and a righteous cause. It is not because these brave men made their sacrifices for either France or England that they should receive the respect of their alma mater, but because they showed the traditional bravery of Harvard men, by giving their very lives in defense of what they considered to be truth and justice...
...graduates have served Germany in like manner, equal honor and respect are due them, and the University is no less eager to recognize their great work, and fittingly commemorate their deeds...
...philosophy, it may be said, I think, that he was the greatest representative in America, and, with the exception of F. H. Bradley, of Oxford, the greatest representative on the later nineteenth century of the idealistic tradition. As the greatest modern idealist, he differed from others in his respect for science and in his mastery of the fundamentals of the sciences. Of the almost captious contempt which other idealists showed for the work of the sciences, he had none. There was room in his mind for all the contributions of materialism and science...
...editorial raises an important point about the responsibility of college graduates for the encouragement of a certain type of semi-professionalism in college athletics. Fortunately, the reports of the Chairman of the Athletic Committee lead us to believe that in recent years public opinion has improved in this respect...
...with Crew A. Low was much interested in the times, which, unofficially, were as follows: Half-mile, 2 minutes, 25 seconds; mile, 4 minutes, 56 seconds; mile and one-half, 7 minutes, 26 seconds; two-mile, 9 minutes, 52 seconds. These times are way above the average, and with respect to the stroke set, they give some idea of the drive of the first crew...