Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wilfred Ward, editor of the Dublin Review, delivered a lecture in Emerson D yesterday afternoon on "The Character of Disraeli," Disraeli, in his rise from the masses to the foremost place in England, in the power and respect he commanded while prime minister, was very like Napoleon. In spite of his frigid reception in Parliament, and the early discouragements of his career, he remained undaunted...
...with the results of a college course from a mental standpoint, and in order that it might have some conception of the physical changes I have published various figures and conclusions. Professor C. S. Minot of Harvard, who has demonstrated his facts by experiments on animals has said with respect to power of growth: 'Paradoxical as it will sound whenever it is first stated to any one, the period of youth is the period of most rapid decline.' In a table compiled by Professor Donaldson on the growth of English boys, he shows that the increase in weight from...
...history of football and also the value of the sport as a business training. It is hard to be asked to tell of football in the home of Haughton, Brickley, and Mahan, but harder still before your press experts for whose diagnosis of plays I have a great respect. If I didn't wish them to recognize a play I would not use it before them until perfected and then I would spring it suddenly! As to the value of football in training for life's work the question is just what kind of a man you would like...
...With due respect to the economists who insist that the task, under free competition, will fall to the most efficient and that such a result should be welcomed rather than deplored, we are impelled to say something in regard to the marketing of tutorial talent at this season of the year. Granted that organizations external to the student body now control most of the tutoring field because of superiority over the Employment Office, is the condition a desirable...
...world masterpiece; our fighting contemporaries probably do not appreciate the fact that Memorial contains pictures of great value from the hands of our best portrait painters. But, whereas Napoleon never asked his dragoons to preserve "The Last Supper," members of Memorial have time and again been asked to respect the pictures that surround them. Damage has been done; that is known. The knowledge should be enough to put a quietus on further demonstrations of the fighting instinct...