Word: respect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blase Harvard man receives his usual castigation. Cambridge society is also touched up: "It seems to be the inevitable fate of colleges to have a great many rather passe society belles in their neighborhood, and Harvard fellows think they are extremely well, or rather ill favored in this respect," He thinks that the Advocate is likely after all to get the steward's scalp. He wants the Co-operative Society (striking suggestion) to undertake the management of a "university" reading room, in which the college and the Law School reading rooms shall be merged. "Basi" is his nom de plume...
Resolved, That the accuracy of the monthly reports is a matter of the highest importance in conducting the affairs of the association, and that the officers of the association be required in the future to use great care in respect to these reports...
...Borland gave some advice to the candidates for the freshman crews, the importance of which, we hope, will be duly appreciated. He urged the necessity of the punctual attendance at the gymnasium of every man at the time appointed for doing the weights, and said that negligence in this respect and in the doing of the other work on the track and chest-weights, was not only unjust to themselves and to the class, but subjected the coach and the other members of the crew to serious inconvenience, and would be taken into account in the final selection. In regard...
...student who considers a suite of luxuriously furnished rooms a necessity astonish the world by a brilliant record. What is the effect on the really and truly poor young man? It is no romance, but a stern reality, that requires a vast deal of moral courage and self-respect to enable him to hold on to his poverty and go through. Ten chances to one he will, if he does go through, come out ahead of the extravagant fellow. But he does not know it, and it is not the less hard for him to grapple with the economy that...
...publicity and excitement of engaging in matches all over the country is certainly not compatible with a faithful, honest performance of those duties of study and self-improvement to which their university course ought to be devoted; nor with the promotion or preservation of that moral manliness and self-respect which alone form and develop the true gentleman. The wealthier young men of each college will also be too generous - when they take time to think - not to see the justice of Dr. Crosby's remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma in which their poorer class-fellows...