Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that report: "It is purposed to divide Harvard undergraduates into houses where they may life in closer contact with resident scholars. To many, the plan seems less significant than the wide publicity given it would indicate. There seems to be no real desire to disintegrate the student body in respect to the teaching, which is to be university given rather than house given. Nor, apparently, are the colleges to be self-governing units, each really developing a life independent of the others. What the plan will amount to, it is yet impossible...
...quarreling over legalities, some 400 Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants met in Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum to discuss their differences. The seminar was held under the auspices of the Calvert Round Table, an organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among conclusions reached by the seminar were: "That . . . sincere differences...
Most such Chicagoans send their children to eastern colleges.* But they are city-loyal to the extent of attending an induction ceremony and they respect the aura of culture which the Chicago faculty casts over fashionable Chicago dinner tables...
...between 'I am very pleased' and 'Please be seated'-and immediately began to talk such inexplicable rubbish about reconnoitring the village, the old Sabakin, the swindling representative, the bloody Tsar Nicholas, Isabella and other things, that the women were absolutely tongue-tied with fright and respect, and the driver exclaimed in a drunken voice, 'Gee up,' and clapped his arms across his chest with sheer delight...
...topic of Mr. Simpson's piece is "The Interstate Commerce Commission and Railroad Consolidation." This is a statement of the rapidly developing law in respect to railroad mergers since the transportation act of 1920, which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission authority over such mergers...