Word: respect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Morton, '92, advanced a few powerful arguments for the repeal of the duty on raw wool. He said that the present tariff with respect to wool is unjust and ridiculous. The few wool producers are benefited, but the many manufacturers are not. Give the manufacturer protection by taking off the duty on wool...
...Athletic committee. He is well known to be thoroughly familiar with college athletics, and will be able to supervise any written document with a lawyer's clearness. Next best known, perhaps, is Mr. S. E. Winslow, captain of the famous '85 nine. No graduate can have more respect and confidence than a man who built a champion team out of a nine which had been ingloriously defeated the year before. With his generalship and experience in base ball to help guide our policy, we may be sure that our nine will not suffer. The crew will have...
That the influence of Homer upon Greek thought and life was marked is in one respect the cause of his influence upon our literature. For the Iliad and the Odyssey were learned by every Greek school boy; every child was taught his first lines of the Iliad, just as at present he is taught his A. B, C. For the Greeks saw how beautifully every phrase of life was pictured in Homer from whom as Ovid says, "As from a spring perennial the lips of bards are moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great...
...ought to be more interested in this branch of athletics, and ought to be eager to meet Harvard. Yale can not refuse on the ground of any unsatisfactory conditions in the challenge since every circumstance-"course, distance, number of men, and date"-is left to her choice. In this respect the present challenge is even more favorable to Yale, if possible, than former ones. Last year's challenges stipulated that the number of competitors should be from five to ten, and that if Yale chose a course near New Haven she should allow Harvard $8.00 per man, or receive...
...United States senate says: "I take pleasure in recommending it as a systematic, concise, and complete manual, covering in brief and clear statement the present state of Parliamentary Law as modified by authoritative practice. As a book of ready and reliable reference it is entitled to great respect...