Word: respect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Taussig is the right man for the task. For many years his sound thinking and big personality have commanded increasing respect not only in the ranks of theorists, but also among the practical business men and legislators of the day. It is quite natural that this great ability should be needed at Washington in the perplexing decade ahead. When his national service is completed we sincerely hope that he will return to take up his old position as a member of the Faculty and brilliant expounder of economic principles...
Among the recent changes in our army regulations, those regulations, those relating to the national anthem deserve the attention of the civilian officials in several states who are trying to standardize and regulate the respect which we should all show when "The Star Spangled Banner" is played...
...reflection, however, calls to mind how serious must be the demands which arise from this very fact of the collection's size. The Widener Library has given suitable housing to the main store of Harvard's books, but there remain the detached collections of various departments, and conditions in respect of these are not satisfactory. Again the maintenance of a library's new purchases of books, within the standards applicable to one of the greatest libraries in the world, must increase in difficulty and in special demands out of all proportion to the needs which the average city library...
...know whether this production is numbered among Mr. Maxim's literary works or whether it was dashed off for the occasion, in which case it would be discourteous to criticize it. Mr. Maxim takes the patriotic eagle severely to task for having ceased to scream. With all respect we would suggest that a screaming eagle is not a happy symbol for any nation, that what our patriotism suffers from more than anything else is a super-abundance of screaming, and that perhaps when we have ceased to scream we shall begin...
...annual income from the $30,000,000 capital, only $425,000 is available to meet the College salary and expense item of $1,020,000. Of course the discrepancy is made up from tuition fees and other income, but this goes to show that the University is in this respect exceedingly poor. It is so poor in funds available to meet running expenses that over a period of 11 years, when general wages and commodities rose some 60 per cent., it was unable to grant any increase in teaching salaries...