Word: esteeming
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...general esteem in which an athletic letter is held that determines its relative value. A "major" sport is such only because it represents a major interest, and a "minor" sport likewise. It seems illogical to expect that to call a letter "major" will make it valuable. It seem rather that to make all sports and insignia major as has been done at Illinois will only take the force away from the term and leave the attitude pretty much as before...
Already more than the first step has been taken; the great have been made a little less inspiring, and humanity at large has, in some instances at least, been able to beam with the tingling glow of self-esteem and congratulate itself that after all Plato and Aristotle, Napoleon and Bismarck are governed by the same laws, the same loves and hates...
...does not appear that Mr. Boyd is trying to jazz up his critical reputation by mere wanton attacks upon the traditional esteem in which such worthies as Milton, Dickens and Poe are held. He merely points out that to the sane man the theme of "Paradise Lost" is so much moral and cosmic spinach, and that since Milton selected this subject because it was what he regarded as literal truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that...
Only the undergraduates and the college officers in charge can correct the situation. The great body of Harvard graduates throughout the country is waiting for them to take the first step that will reestablish Harvard in the public esteem to which she is so well entitled, but which no college can afford to neglect. Yours very truly, Theodore S. Kenyon...
...letter I am not sure that he knows that General Pershing and Vice President Dawes, held commissions in the A. E. F. They did, however, and I know they will be glad to tell him that his letter is absurd. Anyone that reads at all knows in what esteem these two men hold Mr. Baker...