Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calm was eventually restored and a memorial speech for the late U. S. President, Woodrow Wilson, was listened to with great respect...
...following tribute by Dean Greenough expresses a sincere appreciation for her work: "Miss Stearns' skillful and devoted service to Harvard College has meant a great deal to both the Faculty and students. All who ever worked with her have the greatest respect and liking...
...possible to account for the enigma of Walt Whitman's conflicting reputations in Europe and in America in terms of the exaggerated respect which Americans hold for most things European and the concomitant deprecation of most things American. Old books, old hats, and old families are the better for a European origin. Certainly all visitors to the New World, from Columbus to Israel Zangwill, have commented with chary epigrams on this one commendable attribute of the natives. But respect is not synonymous with love; and it may be argued that too much respect and too little love for the European...
...first step toward the elimination of this excessive respect the Society of Independent Artists have tacked up at the entrance to its exhibition at the Waldorf in New York, the sign: "Keep Your Hats On If You Like." And the Secretary explains with the comments "Let the men keep their hats on, as they invariably do in European galleries. We want to get them to show less respect for art and more understanding and liking for it." Whether this apparently trivial act will reform the American attitude is much to be doubted. But as William Penn's refusal to doff...
...that a candidate for entrance whose native tongue is English will not be admitted unless his work in English is passable. The question then arises whether the present generation of sub freshmen talk and write worse English than the one preceding, and whether that generation fell short in this respect of its senior. One thing is certain, at all events, and that is that the present crop of freshmen at Harvard and elsewhere are nothing much when it comes to talking and writing English. It is not entirely the fault of these unhappy youths that this should be the untoward...