Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preserved Harvard as the alma mater of leaders among men. To be a Harvard man does not mean that one has gone through that fraternizing period of sham democracy in which cane rushes and greased poles have stimulated the spirit of brother-hood; but it does mean a respect for scholarship, for the right of the individual to assert himself in his own way; a feeling for that continuity of achievement, free of "isms", which passes over into progress...
...attending a mass-meeting, or for playing chess on the afternoon of the Yale game. It explains also why we do not "baby" Freshmen. We do not promise a man a better time here than else-where--as one of our correspondents seems to desire. Harvard is in this respect, a reproduction of the world outside: the competition is as keen (and much fairer); the victory is as sweet, the defeat is as bitter. And so also is it a preparation for the world...
...desperation. The Eric has quietly ignored the order of the Railway Labor Board to restore the previous schedule, at the risk of arousing public opinion against it. Likewise, the Pennsylvania has announced that it is paying $1.07 for the services which bring in $1.00, and that, with all due respect to Labor and the Railway Board, it must decline to do so any longer...
Varnum was a factor in the flying activities of the University, and took part in the intercollegiate aero meet in June, 1920, and was granted an American Field Service Fellowship for his "scholastic record, fine character, and dependability in every respect...
...good deal of the recent talk about "recognizing scholarship" is it seems to me (with the utmost respect for its origin), characterized by earnest benevolence rather than by perfectly clear thinking. What keeps it from being more impressive is its essential irrelevance. The champions of the idea are palpably sincere, not to say solemn: their intentions are the best in the world, but their psychology is loss to be commended. They do not, that is, admit into their thinking the one fact which is most germane to the subject--namely, that scholarship is in its very nature a pursuit which...