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...academic scene. Said he: "The true portrait of the American college would show a community in which generosity of spirit and graces of culture are predominant, where eagerness for truth and wisdom pervades the atmosphere, where the co-operative enterprise which we call education is carried on with mutual esteem and respect between faculty and students. It would likewise show, to be sure, some degree of self-seeking and self-indulgences, some effort to arrogate special privileges to individual selves, some pride of opinion, some intellectual arrogance, and some close-mindedness, but these would appear as they are, merely...
...considerable surprise that the latter remains very meagerly decorated. Years ago, when a fence surrounded the spot, an occasional wreath was deposited within. One little old lady used to appear regularly and translate the Latin inscription for the benefit of the curious. She always left some token of her esteem, apparently a smaller one each year, until the last, occurring about five years ago, was a single rose. The children of the neighboring Harvard Grammar School obey instructions and occasionally file to the spot, to leave some slight offering, gaze in awe at the name which they vaguely remember having...
...game has all the spectacular features of American football without any of the drawbacks which make the latter impractical for warm weather. It seems destined to win a place in the esteem of American sport followers. Adoption and cultivation by the athletic authorities would be a progressive step...
...must continue your investigation into the love-making of whales (TIME, March 24) it is unlikely that you will find anything more delicate nor more adequate than the language of Herman Melville in that greatest of all whale stories, Moby Dick: "When overflowing with mutual esteem; they salute one another more hominum...
...education; and the importance of Professor Hughes' contributions to science has been amply testified by wide recognition from experts. Membership in numerous scientific organizations of importance including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science bears evidence to the high esteem in which Professor Hughes was regarded by fellow scientists...