Word: according
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...vote of the Faculty on changes in the elective system, approved yesterday by the Board of Overseers, is in accord with the principles which President Lowell laid down in his inaugural address. It has been a common rumor for some weeks that the matter was under discussion in the Faculty, and the announcement this morning indicates that the first step has been already taken...
There is no university in the country in which provision is made in more thorough and thoughtful fashion for the religious welfare of the student body. But it is in full accord with the principles and spirit of Harvard that it is left to the students themselves to decide, each man for himself, in what measure he will avail himself, in what measure he will avail himself of the provision which is thus made. Nothing is more obvious than that large numbers of students, who by no means lack sympathy with religion and who would acknowledge their own need...
...great are his plans for reforms and changes to come. The Faculty, the alumni and the undergraduates respect him for his varied accomplishments in the past and have great confidence in his ability to meet the responsibilities of the future. In welcoming him to his new position, we can accord him no higher praise than by expressing our belief that he will make a worthy successor to President Eliot...
...Smith then declared that his purpose was to teach the men in the University to reverence their brother Americans, because they are true men. We admire courage, and yet accord it but small protection against the "mud" thrown by the unscrupulous newspapers. It is our duty to praise the good and to take little notice of the bad; and it will eventually disappear. Then we can obey the commandment "Love thy brother as thyself" or, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "Give every man a square deal...
...sometime assisted in the more or less fortnightly appearance of Lampoon, turn to him always with the best will in the world to be amused. We are loath to be denied and, where we must, eagerly accord the benefit of the doubt. We realize that only spasmodically does he achieve his full destiny of Chorus to this University drama; only too often he is the conventional Vice, with his lath dagger become a slapstick. It is his business to be local and timely; it is our good fortune if he be sometimes sage and witty. And of the few good...