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Word: respectable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thus we find all kinds of feeling toward Harvard and her work, from adoration and respect to toleration and ridicule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: False and True Impressions of Harvard. | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

...necessary, employ the additional time thus gained in athletic work. But without considering the matter from so low a standpoint, we can appreciate the spirit of the students of Yale in thus voluntarily submitting to such inconvenience. The action speaks well for the determined attitude of the college with respect to the coming season's work in rowing and base-ball. It proves, if any proof was necessary, that our opponents are calculacing upon a hard season's work, and that every effort will be made to win back the championship in one or more of the college sports. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/21/1886 | See Source »

...Suitable respect was paid to this, and then, in response to a call by the president, ex-Senator Sprague, '43, reminiscenes were given by many of the older alumni. Songs were interspersed, and stories told of life at Harvard in former days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Association Banquet. | 1/20/1886 | See Source »

...college, and '89's part in its deliberations are looked forward to with much interest. The freshman committee on the Prayer Petition is an excellent body of representative men from that class, and we feel sure that its delegates to the conference will be equal to them in every respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1886 | See Source »

...into smallpox. We have condemned this failing of student reporters before, but this latest example of greed for news, exaggeration, and total unreliability, deserves more than condemnation. The item in question will be copied far and wide, and will cause needless consternation. A desire to be accurate, and due respect for the feelings of students and their friends should dictate, to all reporters, a spirit of careful discernment and reliable investigation, before sending to the public press an item of such fearful consequences. We shall look for a public forcible correction of this misrepresentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1886 | See Source »

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