Word: respect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...itself. It is the feeling that there is a difference between cheating in an examination, and telling a direct falsehood. In order to correct this state of public opinion, every student should carefully consider cribbing first, as it effects himself, and secondly, in its application to college interests. Self respect is essential to a good reputation. Can the cribber respect himself, and can be expect, that on sober thought, his friends and the college public in general will respect him? Excuse cribbing as much as you can, and the fact that an excuse is needed, shows that...
...their college course. Besides the first crew, eighty-seven has such a plethora of candidates that she is enabled to keep an entire second crew in training, in order to fill up any gap which may occur in the first crew. This second crew is slightly changeable in respect to the different positions of the men, as there is more or less changeing and shifting about going on among them, but we think; the following list will give the positions of the various men as they are now rowing with tolerable accuracy...
...neither make nor read vers de societe, but who have the tenacity of a bull-terrier and the ambition of Lucifer. They are certainly offensive in their way - unpleasantly successful and aggressive; but they carry through very definite ends, and compel even the dilletante's unwilling respect. - Boston Transcript...
...late our English department has been subjected to considerable criticism from one source or another, - criticism which seems for the most part due to ignorance of the facts. While it would be foolish to say that the department is in every respect well conducted, that it is perfect, yet those who have been out of college for a year or more actually do not know what work is being done in English to-day. Accordingly, for the benefit of those who know not the present as well as those who know not the past of our English department, we should...
...sentiment, it is as often deprecatory of student shortcomings as of faculty haughtiness. That faculties dislike to be criticised is not true in the main, we think. No body of men like fault-finding; but good honest criticism, when well meant and of a "remedial" character must meet with respect anywhere...