Word: respect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present, she is in a state of transition, and there are anomalies still in her course which have not been swept away. It will take but few years more to complete the change to a perfect university system. But the system of Yale is radically unwise in this respect, as we believe, for this reason stated by the Beloit professor. "If young men are kept in preparatory training-schools, and are not allowed to assume the responsibilities of manhood till the blood is chilled and the ambition dampened, the 'thoroughness' of preparation defeats its own ends." And the method...
...colleges, a day in which nearly all other colleges suspend recitations, is totally disregarded at Harvard. In fact, it is hardly ever heard of here. Washington's Birthday and other legal holidays are disregarded in the same manner. But yesterday an event occurred that demanded at least some little respect from the faculty. The funeral services over one of our instructors were held in the chapel yesterday noon. During the hours that these last rites were being held over a professor who ought to be respected by all, the college recitations and lectures went on as merrily as usual...
...hours' ride from home, in order that they may return frequently to help support the family. No one, of course, can doubt for an instant that there can be derived many advantages from the Eastern colleges that are unattainable in the West; but the so-called Western colleges deserve respect and sympathy for, in a measure at least, affording to the man desirous of an education what he could never hope to realize without the aid of their encouragement and instruction...
Resolutions of respect for the memory of Senator Burnside were introduced in the Senate yesterday...
...came from an upper-class man, a very natural one, as well, since there is a strong tendency in men, when they have once passed the boundary, to forget that they ever were freshmen. The class of '85, it seems, is remarkable in more than one respect. Its scholarship is said to be above the average; its dignity appears to be likewise high, and its support of athletics is below the average. Doubtless the first trait is an estimable one, and as to the others, one can certainly be quoted discreditable, but the other, in my opinion, is somewhat doubtful...