Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pariah because he does or does not belong to a club, or because he belongs to a club the rank of which might somehow be considered lower than another. The Report of the Harvard Student Council Committee on Undergraduate Clubs is, therefore, advisable only in one respect--and that is the light which it throws on the eating problem in the University. All other details subject themselves to this one regard. One may assume that the purpose of the Student Council in broaching this subject which is discussed openly less than any other undergraduate topic is philanthropical and not analytical...
...excuse for the present report is its relation to the eating situation. And since the above examination has proved, to the satisfaction of the CRIMSON, that this is not the solution to that problem it feels that the report is a failure in this particular respect. As a widespread appeal to clubmembers to let down the bars it is an effective presentation. Its impracticability otherwise is unsatisfactory...
...ready to increase his vocabulary, has a host of terms in stock, from the concise "tight" to the quaintness of "potted". But it has remained for the W. C. T. U. or its New England branch, to define the condition with due branch, to define the condition with due respect to the recent amendment. If or when one indulges in such activity one is "suffering from alcoholic poisoning." One does not drink "liquor", for there is not real liquor any longer, a statement that will be heartily seconded by others besides members...
...wage war, with modern military equipment, on backward people"? Miss Stanton clearly thought so, and spoke like a true Daughter of the American Revolution and granddaughter of the Civil War. "The descendants of the men who drove the British from this country do not relish this lack of respect toward the dignity of the American Nation." Literary, she paraphrased Shakespeare: "Time cannot wither nor custom stale the ineptitude of many British Ambassadors to the United States...
...real value of a man to a community, saying that it "did not depend upon his being a so-called law-abiding citizen; his conduct must also conform to the standard of some self-imposed law. . . . Fear of penalties at best can only be a restraining influence. Respect for law based upon fear alone has little or no value in the life of a community . . . . It becomes more and more evident that no government can make man moral...