Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such as that at New Haven are serious, and the tendency revealed is one to be combatted: but unnecessary publicity often does more to encourage than to combat. The policy of the Yale University authorities in threatening to cancel the Freshman crew race was neither well calculated to inculate respect for the sacredness of law and order, not to give a proper impression to the outside world. Athletic eligibility has little to do with a general riot, and threats are usually a sign of weakness. In order to "see ourselves as others see us" we have to look through...
...there is no need for a trade agreement. However, the Soviet Government has faithfully kept its pledges to indemnify pre-war British investors, and many firms that were doing business there before the war are once again starting operations. The good faith exhibited by the Soviet Government in this respect was a sterling reason why the Trade Agreement was pre-seived...
...least as completely under the control and regulation of the Government in each and every respect as the Inter-State railways are now put. . . . Our prime object must be to have the regulation accomplished by continuous administrative action and not by necessarily intermittent law suits...
...definitely on the way toward greater freedom for those who have proved their ability to use it wisely. One other change, related to the Dean's List, has also been adopted this year undergraduates enrolled in courses of the upper group, "primarily for Graduates", will be trusted, in respect to those courses, on the basis as graduates...
...matter of fact, largely counteracts the new requirement, so that there is in reality no higher standard imposed on the Freshman; although, one of the chief reasons for the new rule is the feeling that the first year is now in most cases too easy. In this one respect the new plan seems defective. Under the natural impulse to procrastinate, unwarned Freshmen will be inclined to jump at the easier possibility and leave the stiffer year until later. Yet the great majority, if put to the test, will have little difficulty in carrying five courses and passing them with three...