Word: respect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...delivery of Canon Farrar, who expresses himself as pleased with the frankness of the American papers. There have been a number of English lecturers in this country who are deplorably deficient in the rudiments of good delivery, and however much they are popular in their own country, to gain respect for an American audience, they must at least be able to express themselves in a moderately effective manner. The day is fast coming when it shall be an imperative necessity to become a well-trained speaker in order to gain the ear of any cultivated assemblage...
...power and earnestness they never fail to interest and influence. We cannot but be glad that the college is so fortunate in getting able men to occupy the chapel pulpit, and we believe that in this way the authorities will accomplish much more towards exciting an interest in and respect for all matters of religion among the students, than by any system of compulsion. We think that we can say with no small degree of certainty that, since Sunday attendance at church was made voluntary, quite as many of the students as formerly, perhaps more than formerly, have regularly attended...
...conclusion, the report states "that the enterprise enters upon its seventh year with greater reasons for hopefulness, both in respect to the co-operation of the professors of Harvard College and the earnest work of its increasing number of students, than it ever before enjoyed...
...university eleven of last year ever displayed, thus showing how much good this plan of class games has accomplished in the way of bringing out new men and developing the old ones. Both sides dropped on the ball in good style yesterday, Peabody being especially noticeable in this respect. For '87, Brooks, Bartol, Burgess, Fletcher and Peabody played the best game. For '86, Burnett, Fisk, Austin and Kimball did the best work, though the backs were loose in their catching all through the game...
...class certainly deserves the sympathy of the college in the misfortune that has come upon it by the necessary resignation of the captain of the class crew. The care and conscientiousness which eighty-nine's captain has given to his work have won for him the good wishes and respect not only of all the candidates for the crew, but also of all the members of the class and college. The misfortune that has befallen him is one for which we believe no one can be blamed, and the class can view it only as a matter of pure accident...