Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing to help you in every way possible to a good start in one of the most important adventures of your life. Also, as the year moves on, we hope that you will come to us freely about your various problems, needs, and plans. A dean's office, I fear, is often pictured as a kind of "Star chamber" where long hours are spent in devising various forms of disciplinary action ranging all the way from admonition to probation and expulsion. This is not, and never has been, a true picture of the situation at Harvard, nor at any other...
...with 35 students. Since that time it has reached the proportions of a college of agriculture and mechanical arts with an enrollment of about 1,400 students. . . . What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? . . . Colleges should be temples. . . . The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge...
...Holy Father put me at my ease at once. He treated me as if he were my father indeed. He rested his elbow on the large table between us and spoke to me in soft paternal tones. So I rested my elbow on the table also and answered without fear or re-straint." The truth of the Mayor's description became more and more obvious as bits of the conversation were related. Said the Pope: "But you are a very young man to be Mayor of such a large metropolis!" "But I am not as young as I look...
...first time Dr. Ferrero was held in Italy was last December when he wanted to lecture in Geneva. On the second occasion he wished to visit the U. S. Said he then: "The Government seems to fear my passing the frontier. For the moment I am virtually a prisoner in Italy...
...system of criminal justice. There are not enough police properly to patrol the county and there are very few communities in the country where the training of police forces is adequate. . . . There are many cases ... in which the witnesses refuse to tell what they know, very often from a fear of the consequences at the hands either of the defendant or his friends. . . . This condition is especially true in what have received the common name of bootleg murders. Even when the witnesses are willing to testify, perjury is one of the most common offenses in the criminal court...